tristan buckmaster just published a statement that is, if accurate, one of the ugliest things i’ve read out of a frontier lab.
not because of the math. because of what happened after openai found out two people were about to beat them to the punch.
buckmaster and levent alpöge
>math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math
>"Navier-Stokes"
>his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions
>openai had his logs in codex
>suddenly rumor leaks AI solved it
>he emails openai to ask what's going on
>openai calls
I don’t care what people say about Tensor G6 being “too slow” (it’s not) but Google did actually fix two of my biggest issues with Pixels from the last 5 years:
Firstly, the cameras look SO GOOD and more importantly, are CONSISTENTLY good. That “over-processed” look has been