Is IMO 2026 still meaningful?
Status:Saturated Checked against the report, 5 November 2026
Verdict
No. Systems score full marks, and most lab claims are self-graded.
Why saturated: Huawei Celia and dots-note-3.0 scored 42 of 42 (secondary source).[1][1] AI at IMO 2026 Tech Insider Secondary
What “Saturated” meansKnown problems
- Most lab claims are self-graded.[1][1] AI at IMO 2026 Tech Insider Secondary
What to look at instead
- FrontierMath Erdős Status:Still useful Yes. It still leaves almost all of its room at the top, though the set is small.
Where it appears in the report
Chapter 1, Benchmarks
- Table 5. Reasoning and knowledge benchmarks: what they measure, who maintains them, the top score on 5 November 2026 and the known flaw in “Go deeper: Reasoning and knowledge benchmarks (17)”
Sources
Copied from the chapter source lists. Each number links back to the source in its chapter.
- [1] AI at IMO 2026, Tech Insider. It reports perfect scores under official and self-run grading. Secondary tech-insider.org Chapter 1, source 34