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NYU endowment turned over more than a third of its portfolio and rewrote roughly another third in just two years, meaning roughly two-thirds of the portfolio was refreshed.

“We've turned over a little more than a third of it in the last two years and we've rewritten probably about another third of it.”

NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI only began prompting its model on the Navier-Stokes problem after learning of his work, and that OpenAI twice tried to remove a co-author (who works at Anthropic) from the paper.

“NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster put out a statement saying OpenAI only started prompting its model on this problem after word of his own work reached the company.”

Michelle Knudsen on shifting the team debate to 70 percent through the research process to avoid analyst defensiveness.

“We've changed that where the big conversation isn't at the end. It's about call it 70% of the way through the research process.”

NYU endowment has been growing its private asset allocation substantially at the same time many peer endowments have been pulling back from privates.

“We have the ability and we have been growing that portfolio pretty substantially over the last few years when many of our peers have been pulling back their allocations.”