[Turkmath:7570] Re: [TMD-UYE: 4725] Post by OpenAI on X

[H. Turgay Kaptanoglu]

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/finite-time-blowup-with-smooth-forcing-term-for-the-incompressible-porous-medium-boussinesq-and-incompressible-euler-equations/


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H. Turgay Kaptanoğlu
www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~kaptan/


On 09.09.2026 12:26, M. A. wrote:
> Olan biten daha karışık gözüküyor.
> 
> https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2097235335034056835
> 
> drama summary for those confused:
> - Aug 15th: Tristan Buckmaster & Levent Alpöge make progress on a few 
> important math problems
> - they do NOT have a proof for the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize problem. 
> BUT, they do claim to have a proof for a similar (non-Millenium) Navier 
> Stokes problem that could help lead the way there
> - Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his 
> work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models. Tristan is not related 
> to Anthropic.
> 
> - Early Sep: Rumor spreads to OpenAI that Anthropic has solved a major 
> problem. Tristan emails OpenAI to clarify. without revealing the 
> problem they solved or how they did it.
> - After hearing of the rumor, OpenAI started researching Navier Stokes 
> with a new internal model.
> 
> - Sep 6th: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck tells Tristan that they solved the 
> $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Navier Stokes problem. The approach is very 
> similar to Tristan & Levent's approach to the non-Millenium problem.
> - Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying 
> this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data 
> directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations 
> were part of the training.
> - OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 
> discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — 
> but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he works for Anthropic.
> 
> - Sep 8th: Tristan refuses to remove Levent, and rushes to publish 
> their results independently. Currently unclear is whether Anthropic had 
> a separate solution for the $1,000,000 problem, or whether the rumor 
> was about Tristan & Levent's independent research.
> 
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> Subject: [TMD-UYE: 4725] Post by OpenAI on X
> 
> https://x.com/openai/status/2097375276384567642?s=51&t=xPc42psHxFkBhkrsywBlUQ
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