The Navier-Stokes Week AI

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    Three minutes after the announcement, the direct answer to the allegation, and the reason this part carries both posts rather than only the first. Read the third paragraph as closely as the second: the denial is that no specific user data was accessed, and the sentence after it, that de-identified data from their usage cannot be ruled out, is OpenAI's own hedge rather than anybody's inference. On the last point their account and the reporting below sit differently. OpenAI says the proofs differ significantly and that the Euler results are not even the same statement, forced against unforced; Scientific American's account of Bubeck's briefing the same evening has him granting that the Navier-Stokes route does follow a similar method to Buckmaster and Alpöge's.

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    We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.

    We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.

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

    However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs. unforced).

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