OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he reached out to Levent Alpöge to coordinate their releases and denies asking to remove Alpöge from authorship of his own work (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)

OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck clarified that he reached out to Levent Alpöge to coordinate their releases, emphasizing his good intentions. Bubeck explicitly denied ever requesting Alpöge's removal from the authorship of his own work, specifically concerning the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes. This statement addresses previous implications about the authorship of their collaborative efforts.