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OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck denies attempting to strip Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge of credit for his work on the Navier-Stokes problem, apologizing for a remark made during contentious private discussions. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed Bubeck, but Alpöge and his collaborator, Tristan Buckmaster, present a conflicting account of events. The dispute also raises questions about OpenAI's data handling policies, as the mathematicians claim to have used OpenAI's Codex tool during their research.

OpenAI claims its unreleased AI model has solved the Navier-Stokes equations, one of math's $1 million Millennium Prize Problems, in just days. This potential breakthrough could revolutionize understanding of fluid dynamics, from weather to coffee swirls. The technical paper is now undergoing global mathematical review for verification.