Big drama! OpenAI accused of pressuring a mathematician to remove an Anthropic employee's name from a groundbreaking paper! NYU mathematician Buckmaster and Anthropic mathematician Alpöge, with the help of AI, solved century-old unsolved problems in fluid mechanics—the "finite-time blowup" proofs for the incompressible porous medium equation, Boussinesq equation, and 3D incompressible Euler equations. Terence Tao publicly praised it as an "amazing achievement"! Buckmaster proactively reached out to an OpenAI mathematician to explain the situation, but was later told that OpenAI's internal model had "already" produced a roughly 100-page proof forcing the Navier-Stokes blowup. Upon further questioning, OpenAI admitted that this "prompt" was only generated after learning about Buckmaster and Alpöge's work. OpenAI proposed two options: either a joint release on the same day, or Buckmaster publishing the Navier-Stokes results alone while crediting OpenAI's model—twice requesting that co-author Levent Alpöge (who works at Anthropic) be removed from the paper. When Buckmaster said he would go public with this, the response was, "Aren't you afraid this will ruin your career?" Currently, these details are based on one-sided allegations, and OpenAI employees have denied the accusations as "false and inflammatory." This "credit-grabbing + forced authorship change" drama between two AI giants over mathematicians' research has sparked heated debate in the AI community. #AI #Drama #OpenAI #Anthropic