Google Gemini, OpenAI win gold at Olympics of coding, beat humans with breakthrough performances
In what could be considered as a landmark achievement for AI, both Google and OpenAI have achieved gold-medal level performances at prestigious international programming competitions, which is also known more popularly as the ‘coding Olympics.’
Google DeepMind’s advanced Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model secured gold at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals. On the other hand, an OpenAI system earned gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). The impressive performance has shown how advanced these AI models are compared to the rest of the world.
