Because OpenAI employees kept leaking that Anthropic had a solution to Navier-Stokes and he wanted to figure out what was going on, since he was working on Navier-Stokes with an Anthropic employee. The rumor has been loudly circling the math community for the past week or so. For a bit of context, here's a timeline from mathematician and AI researcher Elliot Glazer:
replyhttps://xcancel.com/ElliotGlazer/status/2096298696438906934#
Then that's naive of him to write the email, he fell for their trap essentially.
reply> Levent having received tips that information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI
replyThat seems like a valid reason to contact OpenAI.
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