Mathematician calls out OpenAI and Anthropic for unhealthy race to publish AI math breakthroughs
ChenhaoTan · x · 2026-09-12
Tony Feng publicly criticizes OpenAI and Anthropic for unhealthy competitive behavior around AI-assisted math results: each milestone (Unit Distance, the disproof of the Jacobian Conjecture, Navier–Stokes) was matched within days. On August 1, OpenAI rushed out 10 math breakthroughs fearing a scoop; Axiom Math then beat Julia Stadlmann's prime gaps work, OpenAI countered with a stronger bound, and Anthropic claimed a match within minutes. Feng argues this scooping race is unhealthy and the significance of Levent's breakthroughs remains unclear.
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