OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results.
An artificial intelligence system built by Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary artificial intelligence lab, has achieved “gold medal” status in the annual International Mathematical Olympiad, a premier math competition for high school students.
It was the first time a machine — which solved five of the six problems at the 2025 competition, held in Australia this month — reached that level of success, Google said in a blog post on Monday.
The news is another sign that leading companies are continuing to improve their A.I. systems in areas like math, science and computer coding. This kind of technology could accelerate the research of mathematicians and scientists and streamline the work of experienced computer programmers.
Two days before Google revealed its feat, an OpenAI researcher said in a social media post that the start-up had built technology that achieved a similar score on this year’s questions, though it did not officially enter the competition.
Both systems were chatbots that received and responded to the questions much like humans. Other A.I. systems have participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, or I.M.O., but they could answer questions only after human experts translated them into a computer programming language built for solving math problems.
“We solved these problems fully in natural language,” Thang Luong, a senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind, said in an interview. “That means there was no human intervention — at all.”