Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)
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Joseph Howlett / Scientific American : Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alp ge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue c…
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Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American) - 2026-09-08 05:37 · r/singularity
Breakthrough for Navier-Stokes from Tristan Buckmaster + Levent Alpoge?