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Concluded·following since 6 Aug 2026·Day 3·2 sources·updated 8 Aug 2026

Meta AI's STEM Olympiad gold medals

The gist

Meta AI achieves gold-medal performance across five international STEM Olympiads

These competitions require deep reasoning chains, creative insight, and flawless argumentation, making them a demanding test of AI reasoning capability without reliance on external tools.

The full picture

Meta's AI models achieved gold-medal or gold-medal-level performance across five international STEM Olympiad competitions: a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, gold-medal-level performance at the International Chemistry Olympiad and Romanian Masters of Mathematics, and perfect scores on the theory exams of both the Asian Physics Olympiad and the International Physics Olympiad. Tool use, including search, coding, and calculators, was disallowed throughout.

How it developed
8 August 2026

Meta reported August 7 that its models earned gold-medal or equivalent performance across five international STEM Olympiad competitions: a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, gold-medal-level scores at the International Chemistry Olympiad and Romanian Masters of Mathematics, and perfect theory-exam scores at the Asian Physics Olympiad and International Physics Olympiad.

Tool use including search, coding, and calculators was disallowed to test pure reasoning, and the models used multi-agent reasoning throughout.

7 August 2026

A second source corroborated Meta's gold-level Olympiad results and noted the multi-agent reasoning approach.

6 August 2026

Meta published results of AI models in five STEM Olympiad competitions, reporting gold-medal or equivalent performance in all five.

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