🚨 According to a friend, the IMO asked AI companies not to steal the spotlight from kids and to wait a week after the closing ceremony to announce results. OpenAI announced the results BEFORE the closing ceremony. According to a Coordinator on Problem 6, the one problem OpenAI couldn't solve, "the general sense of the IMO Jury and Coordinators is that it was rude and inappropriate" for OpenAI to do this. OpenAI wasn't one of the AI companies that cooperated with the IMO on testing their models, so unlike the likely upcoming Google DeepMind results, we can't even be sure OpenAI's "gold medal" is legit. Still, the IMO organizers directly asked OpenAI not to announce their results immediately after the olympiad. Sadly, OpenAI desires hype and clout a lot more than it cares about letting these incredibly smart kids celebrate their achievement, and so they announced the results yesterday.

Also: A bunch of people worked pretty hard to produce a set of problems, to give them to some very smart kids who love math and worked very hard to get there. Many of these kids get medals; even a single perfectly solved problem gets you a honorable mention. These problems are hard. Then OpenAI comes in, takes these problems, and runs their models on them. The people who worked on these problems are fine with that; many are excited about discovering the frontiers of math with the help of AI systems. But these people asked that OpenAI doesn’t take away the celebration of the kids’ achievements, which was the purpose of the hard work of producing that set of problems that OpenAI used. OpenAI, instead of respecting that wish, defected and published the results immediately and not after a week, as asked, because they seek hype and clout and knew in a week Google DeepMind would make the same announcement. This defection is of a sort completely expected from OpenAI (see OpenAI Files); still, it’s worth spotlighting.