Claude Opus 5 is claimed to score 42/42 on IMO 2026 without tools or an agent harness
davidwromero · x · 2026-07-26
A repost claims Claude Opus 5 solved the IMO 2026 problems at gold-medal level and shares the raw reasoning trace.
- The poster says 6 solutions appear correct when judged by GPT-5.6.
- The run reportedly used no agent harness or tools.
- For one problem, the model hit the 128k output limit and a second request was sent.
- The original quote claims a perfect 42/42 score, making this a notable model-capability signal.
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