Gemini's gold-medal AI model is live, announces Sundar Pichai
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved the gold-medal standard at the International Math Olympiad (IMO) competition held between July 10-20 on Australia's Sunshine Coast. The results marked the first time that AI systems such as OpenAI and Google's Gemini crossed the gold-medal scoring threshold at the IMO for high school students.
However, when it comes to solving complex math problems, the current model takes hours to reason and solve user queries. In a blog post, the company said the currently available model is capable of achieving bronze-level performance on the 2025 IMO benchmark, based on internal evaluations.Additionally, the company said, the Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model has been rolled out to a small group of mathematicians and academics to take early feedback and enhance the model's research and inquiry.
Parallel thinking techniques Google's Deep Think model utilises parallel thinking techniques, an approach that lets Gemini generate multiple ideas at once, weighing potential solutions to solve complex problems and considering them simultaneously before giving the final answer.The idea is to integrate creative thinking capabilities into the AI model by exploring different hypotheses and giving it 'thinking time.'Gemini positions Deep Think as a powerful tool for researchers, as it can reason through 'complex scientific literature' to highly complex mathematical problems and along with coding.
State-of-the-art performance Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks like LiveCodeBench V6, which measures competitive code performance, and humanity's last exam, which measures expertise in different domains, including science and math.
AI taking charge According to a Reuters report published on July 22, Junehyuk Jung, a math professor at Brown University and visiting researcher in Google's DeepMind AI unit, said AI is less than a year away from being used by mathematicians to crack unsolved research problems at the frontier of the field.
CEO Sundar Pichai had also mentioned that AI has brought about a significant platform shift, allowing people, businesses, and communities all over the world to access decades of research. Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea. US tariff hike to hit Indian exports, may push RBI towards rate cuts
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