AI Sweeps Five Olympiad Gold Medals, Closing the Loop for Researchers
shuchaobi · x · 2026-08-07
Reacting to AI models winning multiple gold medals at International Olympiads, an internet user humorously remarked that researchers who never won gold as kids can now just train a model to do it, creating a "full circle" moment. They added that mathematicians who never won a Fields Medal now have a new outlet.
This joke follows Scale AI's models achieving perfect scores in the theory exams of APhO and IPhO, and reaching gold-medal-level performance at the IMO, IChO, and RMM.
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