I looked up some of these authors. I don’t think they’re affiliated with openai. This is an interesting paper but I don’t think it’s related to the Q* rumor
While true that it's not directly linked to OpenAI or Q, this paper is probably going viral now since it is somewhat related to what people know of the Q algorithm, and maybe folks are trying to figure out what it is and how it works, and this paper might be closest to it?