On September 11, Beijing time, OpenAI declared that it would no longer sponsor the 'Math Hackathon' held at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to this decision, current and former mathematicians from Caltech had penned an open letter, expressing concerns that the event, backed by the AI firm, could potentially harm the mathematical community. They took issue with the AI company's assertion of using models to tackle challenging mathematical problems, while delegating crucial verification tasks to researchers, dismissing this method as 'junk math.' Furthermore, they contended that the event might inadvertently serve as an unjust promotional platform for the AI company. Earlier, OpenAI had boasted that its agent had cracked the Navier-Stokes equations, a claim met with skepticism by mathematicians from New York University. They suggested that OpenAI might have leveraged data from interactions with its AI chatbot to refine the model—a scenario that OpenAI did not dismiss. Event organizers clarified that they had not intended to stir up controversy and would give serious thought to the feedback received. Another sponsor, Anthropic, has remained silent on the issue thus far. The research head at OpenAI voiced a wish for deeper collaboration with the mathematical community to collectively investigate the fusion of AI technology and its ramifications in the realm of mathematics. Previously, both Anthropic and OpenAI had pledged to donate AI usage credits valued at $2 million to bolster the event. However, the current quantity of tokens supplied by OpenAI and the subsequent management of these resources remain ambiguous.