AI just scored a major win at an international math competition. For the first time, AI models from Google DeepMind and OpenAI achieved gold medal status at the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO), a challenging math contest for high school students that has been held annually since 1959. According to the Google announcement, only 8% of the high school students who compete in IMO typically receive a gold medal. OpenAI used a general-purpose reasoning system to tackle the competition, not a specialized math system, as the company works towards general intelligence. to emphasize, this is an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system; it is part of our main push towards general intelligence.