Artificial intelligence · September 2025

AI sweeps ICPC World Finals

Machines beat every human team at the top college programming contest.

At the 2025 ICPC World Finals in Baku, OpenAI's system solved all 12 problems while the best human team solved 11. Google's Gemini 2.5 Deep Think solved 10, including one problem no human team cracked.

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What it built on 2

GPT-5 2025
Reasoning models (o1) 2024

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Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)