GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro win gold medals at International Astronomy Olympiad
hhsun1 · x · 2026-08-20
Research published in Nature Astronomy shows LLMs achieving gold-medal performance at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). The study systematically benchmarked five state-of-the-art LLMs on tasks requiring deep conceptual understanding, multistep derivations, and multimodal analysis. Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5 were the top scorers, signaling that AI is now world-class at cutting-edge physics.
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