AI Wins Gold for the First Time at the International Mathematical Olympiad | WPN World People News

The 66th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 2025 was held in mid-July on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. A total of 630 students participated, but only 67—about 11%—earned a gold medal. Remarkably, one of those gold medals was awarded to “Gemini,” an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by Google DeepMind.

This marks the first time an AI system has reached the gold medal threshold at the IMO. Using a general-purpose reasoning model that processes mathematical concepts through natural language, the Gemini model competed under the same rules as human participants—solving six problems over two days, with 4.5 hours allotted each day. The problems spanned algebra, geometry, and combinatorics.

Gemini was among the first group of officially scored and recognized participants this year. It successfully solved five of the six challenging problems, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points. IMO Chair Gregor Dolinar noted that the AI’s solutions were impressive in many aspects. Judges found Gemini’s answers to be clear, precise, and easy to understand, demonstrating a significant breakthrough in AI’s mathematical reasoning capabilities.

Junehyuk Jung, a mathematics professor at Brown University and visiting researcher at Google DeepMind, stated that this achievement suggests AI could help mathematicians tackle many unresolved problems in cutting-edge mathematical research within the next year.