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Arab News
a day ago
- Science
- Arab News
Humans beat AI gold-level score at top maths contest
SYDNEY: Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programs reaching gold-level scores for the first time. Neither model scored full marks — unlike five young people at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious annual competition where participants must be under 20 years old. Google said Monday that an advanced version of its Gemini chatbot had solved five out of the six maths problems set at the IMO, held in Australia's Queensland this month. 'We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points — a gold medal score,' the US tech giant cited IMO president Gregor Dolinar as saying. 'Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise and most of them easy to follow.' Around 10 percent of human contestants won gold-level medals, and five received perfect scores of 42 points. US ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that its experimental reasoning model had scored a gold-level 35 points on the test. The result 'achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI' at 'the world's most prestigious math competition,' OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei wrote on social media. 'We evaluated our models on the 2025 IMO problems under the same rules as human contestants,' he said. 'For each problem, three former IMO medalists independently graded the model's submitted proof.' Google achieved a silver-medal score at last year's IMO in the British city of Bath, solving four of the six problems. That took two to three days of computation — far longer than this year, when its Gemini model solved the problems within the 4.5-hour time limit, it said. The IMO said tech companies had 'privately tested closed-source AI models on this year's problems,' the same ones faced by 641 competing students from 112 countries. 'It is very exciting to see progress in the mathematical capabilities of AI models,' said IMO president Dolinar. Contest organizers could not verify how much computing power had been used by the AI models or whether there had been human involvement, he cautioned.
CNA
a day ago
- Science
- CNA
Humans beat AI gold-level score at top maths contest
SYDNEY: Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programmes reaching gold-level scores for the first time. Neither model scored full marks - unlike five young people at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious annual competition where participants must be under 20 years old. Google said on Monday (Jul 21) that an advanced version of its Gemini chatbot had solved five out of the six maths problems set at the IMO, held in Australia's Queensland this month. "We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points - a gold medal score," the United States tech giant cited IMO president Gregor Dolinar as saying. "Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise and most of them easy to follow." Around 10 per cent of human contestants won gold-level medals, and five received perfect scores of 42 points. US ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that its experimental reasoning model had scored a gold-level 35 points on the test. The result "achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI" at "the world's most prestigious math competition", OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei wrote on social media. "We evaluated our models on the 2025 IMO problems under the same rules as human contestants," he said. "For each problem, three former IMO medalists independently graded the model's submitted proof." Google achieved a silver-medal score at last year's IMO in the British city of Bath, solving four of the six problems. That took two to three days of computation - far longer than this year, when its Gemini model solved the problems within the 4.5-hour time limit, it said. The IMO said tech companies had "privately tested closed-source AI models on this year's problems", the same ones faced by 641 competing students from 112 countries. "It is very exciting to see progress in the mathematical capabilities of AI models," said IMO president Dolinar.
CNA
a day ago
- Sport
- CNA
The female boxer gunning to take Singapore to No. 1 in the global ring
The female boxer gunning to take Singapore to No. 1 in the global ring CNA/Raj Nadarajan In 2016, Ms Efasha Kamarudin became the first international Singaporean woman to win an international boxing gold medal. She recently peaked at No.15 in the world for the super flyweight category. Ms Efasha had an affinity for sports at a young age. Her parents and four siblings loved to keep themselves active and their enthusiasm spread to her as well. Photo: Photo: Efasha Kamarudin Ms Efasha is also a mother to baby girl Zahra. Her goal is to become the "undisputed world champion" and retire by 40 to spend more time with her daughter. Next Story
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Boccia European gold win 'huge' for Kidson
New European boccia champion Sally Kidson says she will take "huge" momentum from winning her first major championship into the rest of this season. The 20-year-old beat defending champion, Sonia Heckel of France, 3-2 in the individual BC3 final in Zagreb, Croatia, earlier this month to win the gold medal. "I'm very happy," Kidson told BBC Radio Wiltshire. "It never hurts to win a big tournament like this and especially a major, but it's not all about that, it's about the momentum going into the rest of the year and ahead of the World Championships next year this sort of thing is huge." Sally Kidson: GB's youngest Boccia athlete Kidson, from Salisbury, made her Paralympic debut last summer for Great Britain in Paris where she was the youngest person on the team. She was introduced to the sport in primary school and made her international competition in 2022, aged 17. "The last Europeans [championships] I did in 2023, I literally came dead last and so to go from dead last to first place is absolutely mental," Kidson said. Honouring former Paralympians Kidson said the gold medal win was even more poignant following the deaths of her pairs partner Will Arnott and Great Britain team-mate Matt Berry at the end of 2024. Kidson and Arnott's gold medal in the Paralympic Games qualifying event secured Great Britain a place in the BC3 category at last summer's event. "It's nothing short of a tragedy to lose both Will and Matt at the tail end of last year," Kidson said. Kidson worked with Arnott's long-time assistant Connor Welfare in Zagreb which she said made the event more special. "This one especially, we know it was a big one because me and Connor Welfare, who was [Arnott's] assistant for 11 years, we thought it would be good to do this together and do it for the big guy," Kidson said. "To be able to get a gold medal and also Zagreb is where Will had his first international competition and his first gold medal [in 2019]. "It was really special to be able to do it."
BBC News
2 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Boccia European gold win 'huge' for Kidson
New European boccia champion Sally Kidson says she will take "huge" momentum from winning her first major championship into the rest of this 20-year-old beat defending champion, Sonia Heckel of France, 3-2 in the individual BC3 final in Zagreb, Croatia, earlier this month to win the gold medal."I'm very happy," Kidson told BBC Radio Wiltshire."It never hurts to win a big tournament like this and especially a major, but it's not all about that, it's about the momentum going into the rest of the year and ahead of the World Championships next year this sort of thing is huge." Kidson, from Salisbury, made her Paralympic debut last summer for Great Britain in Paris where she was the youngest person on the team. She was introduced to the sport in primary school and made her international competition in 2022, aged 17."The last Europeans [championships] I did in 2023, I literally came dead last and so to go from dead last to first place is absolutely mental," Kidson said. Honouring former Paralympians Kidson said the gold medal win was even more poignant following the deaths of her pairs partner Will Arnott and Great Britain team-mate Matt Berry at the end of and Arnott's gold medal in the Paralympic Games qualifying event secured Great Britain a place in the BC3 category at last summer's event."It's nothing short of a tragedy to lose both Will and Matt at the tail end of last year," Kidson worked with Arnott's long-time assistant Connor Welfare in Zagreb which she said made the event more special."This one especially, we know it was a big one because me and Connor Welfare, who was [Arnott's] assistant for 11 years, we thought it would be good to do this together and do it for the big guy," Kidson said."To be able to get a gold medal and also Zagreb is where Will had his first international competition and his first gold medal [in 2019]."It was really special to be able to do it."
