​Explained: Why this mathematician thinks OpenAI isn’t acing the International Mathematical Olympiad — and might be ‘cheating’ to win gold

AI isn’t taking the real test: GPT models “solving” International Math Olympiad (IMO) problems are often operating under very different conditions—rewrites, retries, human edits.

Tao’s warning: Fields Medalist Terence Tao says comparing these AI outputs to real IMO scores is misleading because the rules are entirely different.