Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says the company’s claimed proof followed the same approach he and Anthropic’s Levent Alpoge were preparing to publish

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.

Prior to the announcement, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof’s origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations