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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

China’s DeepSeek releases first AI capable of top score at maths Olympiad

The Deepseek AI logo on a laptop screen in Frankfurt am Main, western German on 1 September, 2025 - (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese startup DeepSeek has released the first ever open AI model capable of achieving a gold medal at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad.

The Math-V2 model reached the gold-level score at this year’s IMO – a feat that only 8 per cent of human participants achieved – by demonstrating its reasoning abilities rather than just produce a simple answer.

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