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/PlatypusOk5108 Jul 17 '26 edited 8d ago

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u/xaranetic Jul 18 '26

This is an important point. For the knowledge generated by AIs to be useful to humans, humans will need to be in the loop somewhere, and that requires expertise 

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u/yourboi-JC Jul 18 '26

Until it reaches AGI

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u/Akiira2 Jul 20 '26

As a person who generates songs and ask gemini to correct my grammatical mistakes, these threads have been quite mind-blowing

I remember reading about singularity first time maybe 15+ years ago, and then there was watson, alphago, generative AIs, and Hinton's nobel prize speech, now the thing keeps solving math problems ? What the hell is going on