Matthew Sparkes at New Scientist:
The controversy arose because, shortly before OpenAI released its news, a pair of researchers, Tristan Buckmaster at New York University and Levent Alpöge at AI company Anthropic, rushed out their solution to a close cousin of Navier-Stokes, the Euler equations, which experts suggested could open the door to a full solution.
Those researchers heard rumours that OpenAI was due to make its announcement, and contacted the company for clarification – knowing its own solution was on the way. Buckmaster claims he was met with opaque responses, and put out a statement that stopped short of making any accusations but pointed out that his own work was being stored on OpenAI’s servers – as a customer, not a research partner.
OpenAI has explicitly denied any wrongdoing, pointing out that no person or AI from the company had seen Buckmaster and Alpöge’s work, and that its solution was, in any case, different.
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