Do I understand it correctly that OpenAI self-proclaimed that they got their gold, without the official IMO judges grading their solutions?
Goog had an official colab with IMO, and we can be sure they got those results under the imposed constraints (last year they allocated ~48h for silver IIRC) and an official grading by the IMO graders.
https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1946477754372985146
> 6/N In our evaluation, the model solved 5 of the 6 problems on the 2025 IMO. For each problem, three former IMO medalists independently graded the model’s submitted proof, with scores finalized after unanimous consensus. The model earned 35/42 points in total, enough for gold!
That means Google Deepmind is the first OFFICIAL IMO Gold.
https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1947337620226240803
> We've now been given permission to share our results and are pleased to have been part of the inaugural cohort to have our model results officially graded and certified by IMO coordinators and experts, receiving the first official gold-level performance grading for an AI system!
But this can be verified because the results are public:
> We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.
> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.
> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract.
> I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.
does he? wasn't sama ousted of YC in some muddy ways after he tried to co-opt in into an OpenAI investment arm, was funny to find the YC Open Research project landing page on yc's website now defunct and pointing how he misrepresented it as a YC project when it was his own
maybe he fears him, but I doubt pg respects him, unless he respects evil, lol