Did we ever learn what model won gold at the IMO from OpenAI? It was a year ago and it was called an unreleased internal general purpose model back then. Has GPT-5.5 Pro Extended caught up with whatever it was?
RESEARCH
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AI Research and its Nobel Prize-Winning Impact on Science
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From AlphaGo to AlphaZero to AlphaFold, his work has shaped not only the trajectory of artificial intelligence, but also our understanding of what AI can do for science. In 2024, he was rightly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with John Jumper and David Baker, for
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Gemini 3.5 Flash miscounts letters — frontier still jagged
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The frontier is still jagged though (here is Gemini 3.5 Flash messing up counting letters in words) https://
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Timeline: LLMs progress from simple errors to IMO gold and major theorem solve
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June 2024: The latest general-purpose LLMs could not count the r's in strawberry.
July 2025: The latest general-purpose LLMs get gold in the International Math Olympiad.
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Agentic Coding for Robotics Research Project
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Thx @willknight
! Agentic Coding for Robotics: an exciting project w/: @letian_fu
, @uynitsuj
, @k_elrefai
, @ethankou24
, @HaoruXue
, @_wenlixiao
, @RavenHuang4
, @guanzhi_wang
, @drfeifei
, @GuanyaShi
, @jiajunwu_cs
, SSastry, @yukez
, @DrJimFan
, @spenserhuang http://
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Demis Hassabis predicts AGI within a few years
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“We are only a few years away from AGI” — Sir Demis Hassabis 2029/30 is his current estimates. No hype, just Demis laying out his thoughts on where we are, where we are not, and where we are going. This is the most transformative era of humanity.
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OpenAI model achieves breakthrough in discrete geometry
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An OpenAI model has achieved a major breakthrough in mathematics, by disproving a central conjecture in discrete geometry that was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) 20 mai 2026
This is the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics. https://t.co/DWD2JKSyBcAn OpenAI model has achieved a major breakthrough in mathematics, by disproving a central conjecture in discrete geometry that was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. This is the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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Paper: Memory-as-a-Model for LLMs Enables Continual Learning
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// Memory as a Model // The paper augments any LLM with a separate trained memory model that stores, retrieves, and integrates facts on its behalf. It decouples memory updates from base-model weight updates. It achieves continual-learning robustness without catastrophic
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Study: LLMs Form Human-Like Hierarchical Emotion Structures
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Do LLMs have a human-like emotional hierarchy? Harvard, UCSD, and NTT researchers analyzed how AI models organize emotions. They found LLMs naturally form hierarchical emotion trees that match psychological models—larger models create more complex structures. But they also
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Demis Hassabis’ Live Reaction to AlphaFold
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Demis Hassabis reaccionando en directo al momentazo del documental The Thinking Game cuando toman la decisión de usar AlphaFold para liberar todas las estructuras de las proteínas conocidas.
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 20 mai 2026
Piel de gallina ❤️ pic.twitter.com/Fs9CE9hWRDDemis Hassabis reacting live to the epic moment in the documentary *The Thinking Game* when the decision is made to use AlphaFold to release all known protein structures. Chills.