Boaz Barak
Role at the time: Personal explanatory response to Bubeck
Defended or excused
Response to this claim
Bubeck says the disputed authorship proposal concerned a rewrite of OpenAI's proof, not removing Alpöge from his own work.
“in order to coordinate publication and to avoid scooping them”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Boaz Barak explains Bubeck's coordination account
Defends the stated aim of coordinating release while distinguishing the teams' mathematical results.
Why we used this label
Defends the purpose of the outreach while recognizing the other researchers' achievement.