Artificial intelligence · July 2026

AI perfect scores at IMO

Officially graded 42 out of 42 at the International Math Olympiad.

At IMO 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei's Celia and Xiaohongshu's dots-note-3.0 each earned an officially graded perfect 42/42. Several other labs claimed perfect scores without official grading, one year after the first AI gold medals.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

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LLMs win IMO gold 2025

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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)