A perfect result at the world’s most prestigious maths contest used to be the preserve of a handful of bright young minds, but for the first time, artificial intelligence has also scored full marks.<\/p>\n
Two Chinese tech companies, Huawei and Xiaohongshu, have said their AI models each achieved 100% on the questions given to human hopefuls at this month’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).<\/p>\n
They were the first AI labs to announce their scores, but others from around the world may follow suit in the coming days.<\/p>\n
“We are delighted with this result, because achieving a perfect score at the IMO is extremely challenging,” Xiaohongshu said in a statement this week.<\/p>\n
“Previously, no large language model had ever achieved a perfect score under the IMO’s official judging process,” the firm added, referring to the tech that underpins AI tools like chatbots.<\/p>\n
In 2025, models made by the likes of Google and OpenAI reached gold-level scores for the first time but could not match the abilities of five human contestants who got 100%.<\/p>\n
‘Frontier of AI’<\/p>\n
This year, 666 contestants from different countries took part in Shanghai.<\/p>\n
Just seven of them achieved full marks, according to the official IMO scoreboard.<\/p>\n
Participants at the IMO, held in different locations each year, must be aged under 20.<\/p>\n
Huawei said Wednesday that its AI system “Celia” had shown “comprehensive problem-solving capabilities” across several mathematical fields.<\/p>\n
Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in English, said its model “dots-note-3.0” had entered the IMO for the first time this year.<\/p>\n
Tech firms were only provided with the IMO problems after human contestants had taken the exam, with their submissions required within a specified time limit.<\/p>\n
“During testing, any form of human intervention was strictly prohibited,” and the AI solutions were submitted to IMO organisers for grading, Xiaohongshu said.<\/p>\n
AI’s progress has been fast: at the 2024 IMO, Google achieved a silver-medal score, solving four of the six problems over two to three days.<\/p>\n
Deedy Das, a partner at the US-based investment firm Menlo Ventures, said he had given this year’s IMO questions himself to four cutting-edge AI models.<\/p>\n
All four, from leading US labs OpenAI and Anthropic, the startup Axiom Math and “Kimi K3” from China’s Moonshot AI, scored 42 points out of 42, he said on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
“The frontier of AI has officially moved well past IMO math,” Mr Das said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A perfect result at the world’s most prestigious maths contest used to be the preserve of a handful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-564172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}