n July reasoning models from both OpenAI and Google Gemini achieved gold medal performance in the International Math Olympiad, a prestigious mathematical competition held annually (bar 1980) since 1959. This was notable because the IMO poses challenges that are designed specifically for that competition. There’s no chance any of these were already in the training data! It’s also notable because neither of the models had access to tools—their solutions were generated purely from their internal knowledge and token-based reasoning capabilities.
international math olympiad style questions can be answered by OpenAI and Gemini models without tools nor having the challenges in their training data.