Anthropic's Levent Alpoge: OpenAI may have trained on the work of various mathematicians to solve millennium problem

“we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.”

i mean props to them for straight coming clean.

(so far the proof looks more along the lines of another euler blowup proof we had, off of whose ansatz naming we were making really stupid puns like “smooth criminale”, unlike the much better “ideal fluids explode”, Tristan)

so i’ll now give a bit on my thinking here. i actually woulda been pumped to collaborate on this, there are a lot of people at oai i like (ok, clearly some were indirectly dicks to me because of being part of the whole situation, but im a big boy, i still like them), idgaf about authorship on that step anyway, coulda been me Tristan and every fte at oai for all i care (on that Tristan would disagree:p). but on hearing the loud convo in the hallway, especially the part where a millennium prize was offered if i’d just be removed from the paper, it was kinda clear the die had been cast and things were locked. pretty wacky, unstrategic, and unnecessary, since on my side things were mostly me and claude having a good time yoloing random stuff in the corner rather than anything institutional. i also like the idea of the labs cooperating, and even better on scientific progress. it’s a shame https://x.com/__alpoge__/status/2097383870773748190

The only way for OpenAI to prove they did not plagiarize is to solve another millennium problem. That way, no one will be able to accuse them of anything.

Grand theft IP is trending on X:

altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet"

rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes

the professor: using codex for a year

openai: has all his logs

checked every codex session tagged to N-S

found the most promising one

spun up 10,000 agents to finish the proof where he couldn't

they got caught

told the guy if you say anything you'll destroy your own career

he ruins his career over this

openai: "we did not see his work"

also openai: "we cannot rule out that de-identified data from their usage helped improve our models"

they stole it lmao https://x.com/ns123abc/status/2097423705240428932

Insane:

You're missing the core drama of the story: Tristan is softly accusing OpenAI of having stolen their result from Codex chat logs.

Tristan then claims OpenAI tried to threaten him to not publicly disclose this, and that they'd give him the Clay Prize ($1M) as the "closest humans to the problem" if he'd agree to disavow his co-author, @alpoge, who is at Anthropic.

https://x.com/hosseeb/status/2097217378753106336