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# AI reaches gold-medal level at the ICPC World Finals

At the 2025 ICPC World Finals in Baku, OpenAI's reasoning system solved all 12 problems and Google's Gemini 2.5 Deep Think solved 10 of 12, both at gold-medal level, under the same time limits as human teams.

## Key facts
- ICPC World Finals held 4 September 2025; results announced 17 September 2025
- OpenAI: 12/12 problems (would have ranked 1st)
- Gemini 2.5 Deep Think: 10/12 problems (gold-medal level)
- Gemini solved one problem no human team solved

## What happened

AI systems competed in an officially supervised setting at the world's premier university programming contest.

## Why it matters

Following IMO gold, confirmed elite-human-level algorithmic problem solving by general-purpose reasoning models.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): in its training data
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [Gemini achieves gold-medal level at the ICPC World Finals (Google DeepMind)](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-achieves-gold-medal-level-at-the-international-collegiate-programming-contest-world-finals/) (deepmind.google, official)
2. [Wikipedia: International Collegiate Programming Contest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest) (en.wikipedia.org, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29: Added science block (science & math tab)
- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2025-07-21: [AI systems reach gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-21-imo-gold-ai/index.md)