Artificial intelligence from OpenAI has taken first place for the first time at the world final of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The GPT-5 model solved all 12 out of 12 tasks, achieving a perfect score and becoming the absolute champion of the competition.
The achievement was announced by OpenAI representative Mostafa Rohaninejad on X. According to him, this is the first time an AI model has outperformed university teams from around the world in the leading student competition for algorithmic programming.
The company clarified that GPT-5 was not specifically trained for ICPC. Two models were used in the contest — the base GPT-5 and an experimental one, which selected the best generated solutions. The standard five-hour limit was applied for completing all tasks.
Among the competitors was Google’s Gemini 2.5 model, which managed to solve 10 out of 12 problems correctly. Within the first 45 minutes, Gemini solved eight tasks and held top positions in the ranking for some time.
The ICPC final annually brings together the world’s strongest student programmers, and this year’s victory of GPT-5 has become a landmark moment in the competition between humans and artificial intelligence.
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