2/n We officially competed in the online AI track of the IOI, where we scored higher than all but 5 (of 330) human participants and placed first among AI participants. We had the same 5 hour time limit and 50 submission limit as human participants. Like the human contestants, our

3/n We competed with an ensemble of general-purpose reasoning models---we did not train any model specifically for the IOI. Our only scaffolding was in selecting which solutions to submit and connecting to the IOI API.

4/n This result demonstrates a huge improvement over @OpenAI’s attempt at IOI last year where we finished just shy of a bronze medal with a significantly more handcrafted test-time strategy. We’ve gone from 49th percentile to 98th percentile at the IOI in just one year!

5/n It’s been really exciting to see the progress of our newest research methods at OpenAI, with our successes at the AtCoder World Finals, IMO, and IOI over the last couple weeks. We’ve been working hard on building smarter, more capable models, and we’re working hard to get

6/n I’ve been lucky to work with many fantastic teammates here at @OpenAI, specifically with @alexwei_ @bminaiev @oleg_murk for prepping for IOI and building on top of the long term work on competitive programming by @_lorenzkuhn @MostafaRohani @clavera_i @andresnds @ahelkky

I, along with some teammates, were able to travel to Bolivia to attend the IOI in person. It was wonderful to meet all the participants and coaches there, and we wanted to say congrats once again!!

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI was the AI working with the same constraints as the high school kids? a human competitor has five hours, no internet, and just their own brain. i'm guessing your reasoning system didn't have those limits. it's not really the same competition, is it? but the whole point of the

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI @SherylHsu02 Hello. Can you please give a name to this strawberry mascot?

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Can you create an image model that doesn’t shift all colors to green hue? Thx

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI spent all night before the contest… in the cloud, obviously

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI holy moly, congrats!

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Wonderful!

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI wow congrats

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Yeah, that's so awesome! 🥳 🎉 Congratulations to you at @OpenAI! 🥳 🥇 🎉

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Nice

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Huge!!

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Congrats

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI I’m interested in what you mean by reasoning system. Are you saying that the solutions submitted were from different LRMs? Because if so, it’s hard to really know how much value to assign this feat

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Please update your image generation. Sephia tint is unsightly.

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Ok so what you are cooking is good. I have high hopes for what's coming

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI whats the name of the strawberry

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI oh my jesus oh my damn... congrats!

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Again 🤯🤯

@SherylHsu02 @OpenAI Congratulations!!