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Gemini just aced the world's most elite coding competition - what it means for AGI
The Google model beat humans at a tough problem in under 30 minutes.
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a state-of-the-art version of Google's flagship AI model that uses advanced reasoning capabilities to break problems down into multiple components, has achieved gold medal performance at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, the company announced Wednesday. "Together, these breakthroughs in competitive programming and mathematical reasoning demonstrate Gemini's profound leap in abstract problem-solving -- marking a significant step on our path toward artificial general intelligence (AGI)," Google wrote in its blog post. Although less monumental in its significance, this kind of problem-solving capability is reminiscent of the famous Move 37 during AlphaGo's 2016 game against Go world champion Lee Sedol, in which that AI model (developed by Google DeepMind) adopted a strategy that surprised human experts in the moment, but turned out to be decisive to its victory.
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