About LLMs failing to reach bronze on the 2025 International Math Olympiad.
Has this happened?
Yes 90 (70%)Not sure 34 (27%)No 4 (3%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About LLMs failing to reach bronze on the 2025 International Math Olympiad.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Machines have always had superhuman capabilities in narrow domains. The LLM domain is quite broad but it's still just a LLM, beholden to its training.
The average everyday human does not have the time to read all available math texts. LLMs do, but they still can't get bronze. What does that say about them?