How to Use olympiad in a Sentence
olympiad
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An olympiad medal says a model can solve hard problems under contest rules.
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Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Olympiad problems aren’t research questions.
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Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
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The hype around this year’s AI results is easy to understand because the olympiad is hard.
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Emily Riehl,
Scientific American,
7 Aug. 2025
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Models compete on olympiad problems, coding tests and formal proof benchmarks.
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Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Lunnemark, a math olympiad gold medalist in his native Sweden, worked briefly as a quant trader for Jane Street.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
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When the 12-year-old isn’t reading the dictionary, he can be found playing cricket, reading mystery novels, skiing and competing in math olympiads, too.
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Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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Google DeepMind and OpenAI had already shown that frontier models can perform at high levels on olympiad-style reasoning.
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Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Russians were barred from the last two Olympiads - the chess equivalent of soccer’s World Cup - following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code.
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Anshul Gupta,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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