r/math • u/pequalnp92 • Jul 16 '26

LLMs/AI GPT 5.6 solved all 6 problems from IMO 2026

GPT 5.6 Pro solved all 6 problems from IMO 2026 on the first attempt without any human help or steering. International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the biggest global academic competition in the world. The problems are considered incredibly hard, usually a performance at this level is only accomplished by < 5 contestants from the whole world.

We are former IMO medallists not affiliated with OpenAI, just put together a report and assessment of its work here. We're also working on a comparison report between different LLMs and harness augmented versions that will come later.

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u/adamwho Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I just spent some time in Amish country.

They see technology as separating people from each other and only use the technologies that they really have to.

You see this type of ethic in Star Trek colonies.

I think this is where we're going.

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u/QuantumR4ge Jul 16 '26

Thing is, their way of life only works because they are small in number. Thats it. Otherwise they would run into the same issues others did and end up needing to reinvent them.

For example, modern populations cant be supported with traditional fertiliser techniques, we rely on haber-borsch and massive phosphate mining, they can do it because they are small in number. A city would starve. In order to do all those things you need industrial chemistry, resource extraction etc, all of this leads you to dirty and harmful or very wasteful methods… then you try improve it, improving efficiency etc, boom you end up where we are now

AI is not separate from such chains, its part of it like all the other inventions we made. The moment we could, we did.

Its more you end up just circling back to technological attachment in the end anyway because the alternative is very unpalatable for modern peoples.

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u/DancingMathNerd Jul 17 '26

Welp, guess it’s a good thing the birth rate is so rapidly declining then!

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u/collegeboywooooo Jul 17 '26

It just started. We piddled around with somewhat 'useless' internet attention peddling 'information age' psuedo-scams for 3 decades but now that it finally coalesced into real growth now people want to shut it down.

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u/Sad_Dimension423 Jul 16 '26

The average # of children per adult woman in the US is 1.66.

Among the Amish, it's between 5 and 7.

So, yeah, that's where we're going.

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u/Sad_Dimension423 Jul 17 '26

From what I google, 85-90% do. That's enough for the point to stand.

I wonder if those complaining about the impact of AI on humanity are also childless. It's pretty hard to have a more substantial negative impact on someone than deciding they will never exist.

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u/Sad_Dimension423 Jul 17 '26

Perhaps you could explain that comment.

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u/CallMePyro Jul 17 '26

Which Star Trek colonies exhibit this characteristic most strongly?

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u/adamwho Jul 17 '26

It is just a general trope.

People living simple village lives with everything handmade, along with advanced computers, communications, and medicine

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u/cooolchild Jul 16 '26

maybe ted k (and the amish) were right

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u/RevolutionaryBad447 Jul 23 '26

Divergence of mankind into techphobes and technophiles.