INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The early announcement has prompted Google DeepMind, which had prepared its own IMO results for the agreed-upon date, to move up its own
IMO-related announcement to later today
Harmonic plans to share its results as originally scheduled on July 28.In response to the controversy, OpenAI research scientist Noam Brown
posted on X, "We weren't in touch with IMO
I spoke with one organizer before the post to let him know
He requested we wait until after the closing ceremony ends to respect the kids, and we did."However, an IMO coordinator told X user Mikhail
Samin that OpenAI actually announced before the closing ceremony, contradicting Brown's claim
The coordinator called OpenAI's actions "rude and inappropriate," noting that OpenAI "wasn't one of the AI companies that cooperated with
the IMO on testing their models."The International Mathematical Olympiad, which has been running since 1959, represents one of the most
challenging tests of mathematical reasoning
More than 100 countries send six participants each, with contestants facing six proof-based problems across two 4.5-hour sessions
The problems typically require deep mathematical insight and creativity rather than raw computational power
You can see the exact problems in the 2025 Olympiad posted online.For example, problem one asks students to imagine a triangular grid of
dots (like a triangular pegboard) and figure out how to cover all the dots using exactly n straight lines
The challenge is to prove that no matter how big your triangle is, you can only ever create patterns with exactly 0, 1, or 3 sunny
an 18 percent probability to any AI system winning IMO gold by 2025
However, depending on what Google says this afternoon (and what others like Harmonic may release on July 28), OpenAI may not be the only AI
company to have achieved these unexpected results.
