After mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of misconduct, all parties have now gone on the record. The case raises hard questions for open science.
The dispute over OpenAI's claimed AI-generated result on the Navier-Stokes equations has drawn public statements from everyone involved. The Navier-Stokes problem is one of the Clay Millennium Problems and carries a $1 million prize.
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster had previously leveled serious allegations against OpenAI, claiming that after information about his research leaked, the company pressured him, tried to remove his co-author Levent Alpöge from the paper because Alpöge works at Anthropic, and threatened him with career consequences. There's also suspicion that OpenAI may have trained its models on drafts the two researchers uploaded to Codex.
One thing is undisputed. By its own account, OpenAI heard rumors that Anthropic's models had solved a Millennium Problem and then pointed its own resources at the same problem. On several other points, the stories diverge.
Buckmaster calls it "absolute academic malpractice"
