OpenAI, Google reasoning models achieve gold-level scores in ICPC coding contest

The ICPC, as the event is called, is the world’s most prestigious college-level programming contest. It draws participants from about 3,000 universities. OpenAI says its reasoning models achieved a ...

Read the pitch deck these ex-DeepMind scientists used to raise $5 million for an AI 'algorithm factory'

Former DeepMind scientists raise $5 million for Hiverge, a startup developing AI to improve code.

Google and OpenAI’s coding wins at university competition show enterprise AI tools can take on unsolved algorithmic challenges

Gold medal winning performances of GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 DeepThink at prestigious coding competition shows how far LLMs have come.
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Gemini 2.5 Deep Think scores competitive coding gold in ‘profound leap’ for abstract problem-solving

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now scored a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding.
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Coding bootcamp grad designs NFL scoring algorithm in data science course

This article was written for our sponsor, Thinkful. Albert Troszczynski is one of the lucky few individuals who’s been able to marry his passions with his profession. Thanks to a coding bootcamp with ...