[Turkmath:7572] Re: [TMD-UYE: 4730] Re: Post by OpenAI on X

[Muhammed Uludag]

Levent'e sosyal medyada destek verelim!
Çok üstüne gidiyorlar.
--
A. M. Uludag
http://math.gsu.edu.tr/uludag/
twittter: @metamathician


On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM <ozan at metu.edu.tr> wrote:

> Değerli Liste Üyeleri,
>
> Tüm bu yaşananlar bana Afrika'ya gidip, bir aracın içinden
> çevrelerinde gördükleri ya da peşine düştükleri hayvanlara hoyratça
> ateş edip katleden yaratıkları hatırlatıyor. Kendilerini de 'ama biz
> çok iyi nişancıyız' diye savunmaya kalkıyorlar.
>
> Diğer yandan, tek dertleri para olan bu karbon temelliler çok yakında
> birbirlerinin peşine de düşecek gibi görünüyor.
>
> İyi akşamlar,
>
> Yıldıray
>
>
>
> Alıntı "M. A." <ayyuru at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > [cid:415b2f53-e356-491f-9651-8f12ba87f7e4]
> > ________________________________
> > From: TMD-UYE <tmd-uye-bounces at listweb.bilkent.edu.tr> on behalf of
> > Muhammed Uludag <muhammed.uludag at listweb.bilkent.edu.tr>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 7:23 PM
> > To: turkmath <turkmath at listweb.bilkent.edu.tr>; tmd-uye
> > <tmd-uye at listweb.bilkent.edu.tr>
> > Subject: [TMD-UYE: 4725] Post by OpenAI on X
> >
> >
> https://x.com/openai/status/2097375276384567642?s=51&t=xPc42psHxFkBhkrsywBlUQ
> >
> >
> > --
> > A. M. Uludag
> > http://math.gsu.edu.tr/uludag/
> > twittter: @metamathician
>
>
>
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