"Pretty soon, competition math, competition coding, is not going to be interesting anymore.
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-07
An unattributed AI leader predicts that competition math and coding benchmarks will soon become uninteresting, and expects a model achieving a perfect IMO score to exist within one year.
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Topics: ai-benchmarksmathematical-reasoningimocompetition-math
Claims
- Competition math and competition coding benchmarks will soon no longer be meaningful measures of AI capability.
- A model capable of achieving a perfect score on the International Math Olympiad is expected within one year.
- Current frontier AI is approaching the ceiling of human competition-level math benchmarks.
Key quotes
Pretty soon, competition math, competition coding, is not going to be interesting anymore.
I'll be disappointed if we don't have a model out by next year that anybody can use to get a perfect score on the IMO (International Math Olympiad).