Google DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence model has achieved a “gold-medal level” performance at a competition known as the “coding Olympics”, in what the group describes as a milestone in the development of the revolutionary technology.
The London-based laboratory run by British Nobel laureate Sir Demis Hassabis said on Wednesday that its AI reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, achieved the result against the best human competitors at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in early September.
The competition is considered the most prestigious programming contest in the world. Former participants include Google co-founder Sergey Brin and OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki.
DeepMind said the Gemini model’s performance would have ranked second overall in the competition. It was also able to solve a problem that no human competitor could solve.