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This weekend, artificial intelligence (AI) models were tested to find out who is the best so-called Mathlete in Australia’s most famous competition in the world.
Google’s Deepmind and Openai say they created ChatGpt and achieved gold medal-level performance at this year’s International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), but Google actually took part in the competition.
IMO reviewed the results of DeepMind, but Openai evaluated the model on the 2025 IMO problem and self-published the results before official verification.
OpenAI research scientist Alex Wei is working on large-scale language models (LLMS) and reasoning, and published the results on his X account.
The advanced version of Deepmind’s Gemini Deep Think completely solved five of the six IMO issues, earning a total of 35 points, achieving gold medal-level performance.
Openai’s model solved five out of six IMO problems and had the same score.
Both models show how far AI has come since the technology was launched in November 2022 along with the launch of ChatGPT.
The mathematics test itself is extremely difficult, with only about 10% of its 630 competitors receiving gold medals this year.
Participants from over 100 countries participated in a competition targeting elite high school students. Applicable to people under the age of 20.
“When we first started Openai, this was a dream, but it wasn’t something we felt very realistic. It’s an important marker of how far AI has come over the past decade.”
He added that the company will “soon” release a new version of the GPT-5, but it has no plans to “release models with IMO gold level capabilities for months.”
Meanwhile, Google wrote in a blog post: “This is an important marker of how far AI has come over the past decade.”
The company took part in the sport last year and won a silver medal. “The leap from silver to gold standard in just one year shows an incredible pace of AI progress,” Google said.
However, the two companies celebrated human participants and avoided framing the competition as a human-machine challenge.
Wei called them “some of the brightest young minds of the future,” and said Openai is hiring former IMO competitors.