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Avatar photo Doug Kass on October 8, 2026

Jim F

18m ago

CNBC interviewed Tristen Buckmaster who is one of the mathmaticians working on the Navier-Stokes problem that ChatGPT solved. basically he says he had been working on this problem for years with another mathmatician. the other guy currently works at anthropic. the other guy was using Claude and Tristen was using ChatGPT. so the two of them solved the problem with oil which apperently is one step easier then solving the Navier-Stokes problem. then OpenAI approched Tristen and said lets work together to solve this. we will give you millions of tolkens to complete the solution on one condition. you cut out the guy that works for Anthopic. you can have full credit and the $1m reward. as long as you did it on ChatGPT. well he wasn’t going to screw over his long time partner so he said no. then from starting from nowhere they solved it without him. he can’t prove they stole his IP to solve it but it sounds compelling that they did.

if this is true, that means open Chinese models aren’t only way cheaper but also more secure because you keep your data. why use OpenAI or Anthropic again?

here’s the link to the interview for those interested. apperantly no links, sorry. for those interested got to youtube and search Tristan Buckmaster CNBC interview

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Programming Note

Avatar photo Doug Kass on October 8, 2026

I have several research meetings out of the office today, starting at 2 p.m., so I will be slow on the posts late in the day.

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Not Gone Fishing

Avatar photo Doug Kass on October 8, 2026

I would still avoid financials and not bottom fish:

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