OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem

Re:OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem by tmsh on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:57PM (#49618330)

They needed the general direction and idea it might work from a few folks tinkering for a year with the same models that we all have access to. The majority of credit goes to them. The idea of where to look with AI is key. Models didn't do that by themselves.

Trust: https://x.com/__alpoge__

"since on my side things were mostly me and claude having a good time yoloing random stuff in the corner rather than anything institutional"

Not: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck

"If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice." [when clearly there's not enough deference paid to where this line of research originated]

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Re:OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem by tmsh on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:01AM (#49621240)

Also: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

I had planned to say on announcing our work that the results are not the important thing. Rather the important thing is instead the significance that a mathematician and an LLM model can now do all this work in a month

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