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- OpenAI denied that its researchers or models ever saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, according to Wired.
- OpenAI said it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had achieved a breakthrough, with accusations of impropriety overshadowing what the lab had framed as a landmark announcement.
Why it matters: The dispute hinges on timing: if OpenAI only learned of Anthropic's breakthrough after burning millions in compute, its claim to an independent solution holds — but Buckmaster's allegation that the company used an internal model to tackle Navier-Stokes directly implicates the lab's frontier research practices.
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