Could using AI to help you with your next big idea ultimately lead AI giants to beat you to the punch?

A professor and OpenAI are trading jabs over the progress made on a math problem so difficult to solve that there’s a $1 million prize for doing it. The entire saga raises questions about credit for AI-powered work and the data used to train models, writes BI’s Ben Shimkus.

NYU math professor Tristan Buckmaster announced major progress related to the Navier-Stokes problem only to be followed less than 24 hours later by OpenAI, which proposed a full-blown solution.

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