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India Today
22-07-2025
- Business
- India Today
OpenAI and Google both won gold at 2025 International Math Olympiad: Full story in 5 points
In a first for artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Google have announced that their AI models have scored gold medal-worthy results at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious global competition for high school students. The development is being seen as a landmark moment in the race to build AI systems that can reason like humans and solve complex academic Google won gold at 2025 International Math Olympiad: Full story in 5 points-OpenAI and Google used advanced reasoning-based AI models that worked through natural language rather than relying on traditional mathematical programming methods. Both companies' systems successfully solved five out of six problems, a score that crosses the threshold for a gold medal at the IMO. This is the first time any AI models have managed to reach that level of accuracy in the competition's history.-The 66th IMO was held on Australia's Sunshine Coast, with 630 student participants. Alongside them, Google's DeepMind AI unit officially took part with its "Gemini Deep Think" model, which had been introduced earlier at the company's I/O event in May. The model managed to work through all problems in the same 4.5-hour time frame given to human participants, using plain English to process and solve the questions. -On the other hand, OpenAI did not officially enter the contest but later shared that its own experimental model had achieved similar gold-level scores when given the same problems. OpenAI's scores were verified by three independent IMO medalists, according to the company. The model used a new method involving massively scaled-up "test-time compute", which essentially means the system was allowed to run longer and use greater computing power to think through multiple approaches in parallel. OpenAI researcher Noam Brown described the effort as computationally 'very expensive'.-While Google's DeepMind had its results verified and certified by the IMO's committee, OpenAI revealed its achievement after the official competition results were made public. Both companies respected the IMO board's condition to delay announcements until the student rankings had been confirmed.-The achievement has sparked optimism among researchers. Professor Junehyuk Jung from Brown University — himself a former IMO gold medalist — said that this progress shows how close AI is to playing a supporting role in solving high-level research problems in mathematics. According to Google, this breakthrough is not just about solving maths problems. It's about demonstrating that AI systems are now capable of applying logic and reasoning, not just in maths but potentially in fields like physics and theoretical computer science. While OpenAI confirmed it won't release such high-level mathematical tools to the public immediately, it hinted that the capabilities could soon extend beyond math.- Ends
Saudi Gazette
19-07-2025
- Science
- Saudi Gazette
Saudi students win 7 international awards in math and informatics olympiads
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi students have achieved seven international awards in two major scientific competitions: the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and the European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI). At the 66th edition of the IMO, held in Sunshine Coast, Australia, Saudi Arabia's team secured six awards, including three bronze medals and three honorable mentions. The competition featured 630 students from 110 countries. The bronze medalists were Youssef Ayman Bukhait (Royal Commission for Yanbu Education), Abdulsalam Abdullah Al-Sulami (Madinah Education), and Moath Saeed Al-Qahtani (Eastern Province Education). Meanwhile, honorable mention awards went to Ahmed Fareed Al-Khalawi (Jeddah Education), Ahmed Saad Al-Shahri (Riyadh Education), and Mohammed Ahmed Al-Ghamdi (Eastern Province Education) With these results, Saudi Arabia's overall record at the IMO now stands at 12 silver medals, 48 bronze medals, and 22 certificates of a parallel achievement, Saudi high school student Rival Khalid Al-Hazmi from Tabuk Education (Grade 12) won a bronze medal at the 5th edition of the European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics, held in Bonn, Germany. The event featured 226 participants from 60 countries. This brings the Kingdom's total tally in the EGOI to seven international awards since its debut in the competition.
