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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: ergophobe on July 15, 2026, 06:36:27 PM

Title: OpenAI model crushes top programmers at competition
Post by: ergophobe on July 15, 2026, 06:36:27 PM
https://www.understandingai.org/p/an-openai-model-crushed-top-human

QuoteOpenAI's models last year weren't good enough to compete in the algorithmic division.

The 2026 competition, held this week, turned out very differently. Organizers chose a heuristic problem designed to help humans succeed. Despite that, OpenAI "completely demolished human competitors," Psyho noted after the two-day competition finished Wednesday night. It's hard to quantify exactly how big the AI's margin of victory was, but Psyho told me that he would guess that humans would need to work at least a few more days to match the AI's score — though he stressed that this is a hard number to predict exactly.