Google ‘officially’ bags IMO gold

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Fresh off yesterday’s news of OpenAI claiming gold-level performance on the International Math Olympiad, Google entered the highlight—earning an official gold-medal standard… and stirring up some serious drama.

The 2 AI giants took different approaches to generating and grading math proofs, but one thing is obvious: the race to construct mathematical superintelligence is officially on.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google’s ‘official’ gold win at IMO

• Alibaba’s Qwen3 takes open-source crown

• Create an AI agent that drafts emails for you

• Brain-inspired Hierarchical Reasoning Model

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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GOOGLE

🥇 Google’s ‘official’ gold win at IMO

The Rundown: Google DeepMind has announced that its advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think has officially achieved gold-medal level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025, following OpenAI’s similar claim.

The small print:

• DeepMind said it worked with IMO to check Gemini’s mathematical reasoning on the identical problem statements and cut-off dates, 4.5 hours, as human competitors.

• Out of six problems covering algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory, the AI solved five and scored 35/42—marking the gold-medal standard.

• Last 12 months, DeepMind won silver by utilizing domain-specific translations, but this 12 months, its model tackled the issues entirely in natural language end-to-end.

• OpenAI also claimed the identical rating with an unnamed model, nevertheless it didn’t work with IMO and had the answers graded by former medalists.

• Google’s answers, however, were officially graded and authorized by IMO coordinators using the identical internal criteria as for student solutions.

Why it matters: Despite taking different paths, each models’ performance shows that AI is rapidly closing in on advanced mathematical reasoning. At this rate, the following frontier isn’t in the event that they’ll solve all 6 out of 6 IMO problems—but quite after they’ll have the creativity to unravel problems no human ever has.

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ALIBABA

⚙️ Alibaba’s Qwen3 takes open-source crown

The Rundown: Alibaba’s Qwen team just took the open-source crown with the release of an updated, non-thinking Qwen3 model that beats Kimi K2 across the board and challenges top closed-source models like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.

The small print:

• Following community feedback, Alibaba separated its hybrid pondering approach, training instruct and reasoning models independently.

• The brand new non-thinking version prompts 22B of 235B parameters with a 256K-context window, delivering significant performance gains.

• In benchmarks, it surpassed Moonshot AI’s recently released Kimi K2 and challenged closed frontier models like Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4o-0327.

• The updated model is 100% open-source and can be available because the free default model on Qwen Chat, Alibaba’s ChatGPT competitor.

Why it matters: One other Chinese team has outshined frontier labs through daring open-source innovation, despite chip constraints from the West. The achievement spotlights China’s growing dominance in AI innovation—driven not only by technical prowess, but by a strategic push for openness and global influence.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Create an AI agent that drafts emails for you

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn methods to construct an intelligent AI agent that draft’s emails for you using xAI’s Grok 4 model through n8n’s workflow automation platform.

Step-by-step:

1. Add a n8n chat message trigger and connect an AI Agent node to create your workflow foundation

2. Configure xAI Grok Chat Model (Grok-4-0709) together with your API credentials

3. Add a Easy Memory node and set a Gmail integration to Create Draft (see image above as reference)

4. Test with: “Draft an email to [email protected] asking for meeting availability” and customize with system messages

Pro tip: Use draft mode first to review AI-generated emails are on par together with your writing before switching to automatic sending.

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SAPIENT INTELLIGENCE

🧠 Brain-inspired Hierarchical Reasoning Model

The Rundown: Sapient Intelligence introduced Hierarchical Reasoning Model, a brain-inspired open-source AI that delivers unprecedented reasoning power on complex tasks like ARC-AGI and Sudoku, with just 27M parameters.

The small print:

• HRM’s architecture uses three principles seen in cortical computation: hierarchical processing, temporal separation, and recurrent connectivity.

• A high-level module handles abstract planning while a low-level one executes fast, detailed tasks, switching between automatic and deliberate reasoning.

• The approach enabled the model to beat larger ones like Claude 3.7, DeepSeek R1, and o3-mini-high on ARC-AGI 2 and complicated Sudoku and maze puzzles.

• With no pretraining or CoT, it points to a brand new sort of efficient intelligence that doesn’t need immense training data or suffer from brittle task decomposition.

Why it matters: As AI moves to real-world decision-making—efficient, brain-inspired models like HRM signal a shift toward intelligence that’s not only powerful, but in addition deployable in low-data environments. Sapient is already putting this into practice, helping teams with rare-disease diagnostics and pushing climate forecasting accuracy.

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• 🧠 Composite – Turn your existing browser into an AI agent

• ⚙️ GEN – Create AI characters that construct social media audiences end-to-end

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• ⚙️ Sanctuary AI – Mechanical Engineer, Automation

• 📊 Meta – Data Scientist

• 🏙️ Metropolis – Market Leader

📰 Every thing else in AI today

Cohere Labs introduced Catalyst Grants Program, providing free access to its models to groups tackling challenges in areas like education, healthcare, and climate.

AI video company Pika announced a brand new AI-only social video app, built on a highly expressive human video model, with early access waitlist now open for iOS users.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now gets over 2.5B day by day requests (meaning 912.5B annually), with 330 million coming from users based within the U.S alone.

Netflix said it used generative AI in an Argentine TV series and accomplished its VFX sequence “10 times faster” than it might have been accomplished with traditional tools.

Elon Musk’s xAI poached Ethan He, one among Nvidia’s top AI researchers who led the work on Cosmos, the corporate’s SOTA world model.

Runway announced its Act-Two motion capture model is now available via the API, allowing users to integrate it directly into their apps, platforms, and web sites.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Shubham—The Rundown’s editorial team