Comment by traes
6 hours ago
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:
https://xcancel.com/ElliotGlazer/status/2096298696438906934#
Then that's naive of him to write the email, he fell for their trap essentially.