IMO 2025: 35 of 42 points (gold level) announced by OpenAI, graded by three former medallists (self-announced)
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The gist
OpenAI announced on 19 July 2025, in a post by Alexander Wei, that its experimental reasoning model scored 35 of 42 points at IMO 2025, a gold-medal score.
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BibTeX @misc, key discoveria-imo-2025-gold-ai-r1
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author = {{DiscoverIA}},
title = {IMO 2025: 35 of 42 points (gold level) announced by OpenAI, graded by three former medallists (self-announced)},
howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry imo-2025-gold-ai},
note = {Status « Not evaluated », snapshot 1, recorded on October 11, 2026. competition},
year = {2026},
url = {https://discoveria.ai/en/fiche/imo-2025-gold-ai/#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-11}
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Key facts
- Claimed by
- OpenAI (annonce d'Alexander Wei)
announced on Jul 19, 2025 - Nature
- competition
- Field
- Mathematics (mathematics competition)
- Checked by
- three former IMO medallists, not named in the announcement, with no official role; no check by the IMO
- Sources (domains)
- 4 : 3 read word for word, 1 links only
- This entry
- Reviewed by Antoine Olivier, Oct 18, 2026
To understand
Analogy
Like a candidate who sits the paper at home and has it marked by former prize-winners of their own choosing, outside the official jury.
What it changes
If the score holds, a language model would have reached gold-medal level at the international mathematics olympiad (IMO). The proofs written by the model are published, so they can be read and checked.
What remains unclear
According to Euronews, OpenAI evaluated its model on the 2025 problems and published its results before any official verification: the grading came from three former IMO medallists not named in the announcement. A Google researcher disputes the marking scheme applied to OpenAI; this is not confirmed.
4 sources.
For experts
Sources(domains)
- primairex.comlink only, reading not recorded
- position-revendicateursimonwillison.netpage read word for word · consulted on Oct 18, 2026 ·
The model earned 35/42 points in total, enough for gold!
- depotgithub.compage read word for word · consulted on Oct 18, 2026 ·
This repository hosts the proofs produced by our experimental reasoning LLM during its evaluation on the 2025 International Math Olympiad.
- source-statuteuronews.compage read word for word · consulted on Oct 18, 2026 ·
OpenAI evaluated its model on the 2025 IMO problems and self-published its results before official verification
Method
According to Alexander Wei's announcement, quoted by Simon Willison, three former IMO medallists graded each proof independently, and the marks were settled unanimously. The model's proofs are in the aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs repository. Status “not evaluated” recorded on 11 October 2026 from euronews.com (seen only in a search engine snippet).
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Like a candidate who sits the paper at home and has it marked by former prize-winners of their own choosing, outside the official jury.
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