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title: "OpenAI Says It Solved a $1M Math Problem. A Rival Mathematician Says He Did It First"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/openai-says-it-solved-a-1m-math-problem-a-rival-mathematician-says-he-did-it-first/
date: 2026-09-08
modified: 2026-09-08
lang: en
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge."
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
word_count: 26
---

# OpenAI Says It Solved a $1M Math Problem. A Rival Mathematician Says He Did It First

NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge.