Google AI wins gold at mathematics competition

An artificial intelligence system built by Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary AI lab, has achieved “gold medal” status in the annual International Mathematical Olympiad, a premier math competition for high school students.

- CADE METZ

It was the first time that 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 Monday.

The news is another sign that leading companies are continuing to improve their AI systems in areas such as 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 OpenAl researcher said in a social media post that the startup had built technology that achieved a similar score on this year’s questions, although it did not officially enter the competition.

Both systems were chatbots that received and responded to the questions much like humans. Other AI systems have participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, but they could answer questions only after human experts translated them into a computer programming language built for solving math problems.