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Reaction converging Navier stokes solution Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI Leans Toward Holding Up I.P.O. Until Next Year Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago
⚡ 7 h early

Navier stokes solution

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“This is a VERY big one. (And yes, the fights over academic credit and what happened in the race for the proof needs to be resolved, but it is still appears that this is a big one, if true.) openai.com/index/navier...” evidence ↗
14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Emad Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath David Picard Alex Hern Sean O hEigeartaigh Dare Obasanjo +6
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Colin: Drama and palace intrigue aside, can anyone interpret what all of this implies about the status of Navier-Stokes? I don’t understand what anyone is saying.
Colin: It seems to me that where we stand is OpenAI is sitting on a 100 page PDF that claims to have solved (a version of) the Navier-Stokes problem and no person in the world knows if it's correct or not.
Colin: - OpenAI claims to have more-or-less done this tedious technical grinding to produce a resolution to NS proper, at least one version of it. - which they bizarrely offered authorship of this to Buck…
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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
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OpenAI IPO delay announced

OpenAI Leans Toward Holding Up I.P.O. Until Next Year

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Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · rat king 🐀 👑
“saw this headline pop earlier and recoiled at the cynicism but the actual video isnt *quite* as bad, a bit more padding/context still, as we reported months ago, OAI has been leaning to pump IPO brakes for a long time b/c books are not in shape for it https…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
rat king 🐀 👑 Dare Obasanjo
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“OpenAI is considering postponing their IPO until next year after seeing the volatility of SpaceX (currently trading -5% below IPO price) and a concern it may not be able to hit it's expected $1T valuation. Given SpaceX has profitable businesses and OpenAI d…”

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“saw this headline pop earlier and recoiled at the cynicism but the actual video isnt *quite* as bad, a bit more padding/context still, as we reported months ago, OAI has been leaning to pump IPO brakes for a long time b/c books are not in shape for it https…”

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2 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
Dare Obasanjo Lionel
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“Using excel in this context is not appropriate because excel is an autonomous system. Both things can be true but you seem to dismiss that much of this is motivated by the financiers who fund capex…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Dare Obasanjo: The tradeoff is this contradicts the goal of replacing human workers with AI, if humans have to review every consequential decision. So alignment research is a band aid given the business goals of …
Dare Obasanjo: I think the focus on alignment at frontier labs is misguided. If you don’t want Claude deleting emails, don’t give it that permission or require human approval. Trying to “teach” an unreliable LLM …
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