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The speaker says that even OpenAI staff considered it outrageous and nearly impossible for a general-purpose language model without tools or internet access to win an IMO gold medal in 2025.
Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026
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“what were the projections for like getting an IMO gold in 2025?”
“It was, I mean, I think the idea that it could be done with a general purpose language model with no tools and no access to the internet,”
“I think even people at OpenAI thought this was like outrageous.”
“They thought it was like almost impossible.”34:32Report a misattribution
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