Comment by postalcoder

Odd framing by the economist. The open letter calls out "AI companies", not just OpenAI. Anthropic hasn't been a good neighbor either.

  > OpenAI appears to have gazumped Tristan Buckmaster (pictured) and Levent Alpöge, a duo of mathematicians labouring on the task.

What's hilarious is that the economist has gobbled up Levent's disingenuous "this was just a personal project" narrative.

https://mathandai.org