An NYU professor says OpenAI's mass release of math papers wiped out early-career researchers' projects

Business Insider | 10-10-2026 02:28am |

Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematics professor at New York University, said that OpenAI's release of over 700 mathematical manuscripts on GitHub on Tuesday had upended work by early-career mathematicians. In an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday, Buckmaster stated that entire research programs were wiped out by the release. OpenAI described the manuscripts as the results of an internal project. The release has sparked questions among mathematicians about whether their unpublished data had been used to train AI models.

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