An artificial intelligence system built by Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary artificial intelligence lab, has achieved “gold medal” status in the annual International Mathematical Olympiad, a premier math competition for high school students.

The announcement follows Google's July 2024 claim that its AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 models earned a silver medal equivalent at the IMO—though Google's systems required up to three days per problem rather than the 4.5-hour human time limit and needed human assistance to translate problems into formal mathematical language.

Alphabet's Google and OpenAI said their artificial-intelligence models won gold medals at a global mathematics competition, signaling a breakthrough in math capabilities in the race to build systems that can rival human intelligence.