Ahmed El-Kishky

We didn't tell it to do that.

It had never done that before.

Can our models actually discover some new knowledge?

One of the problems that no human contestants solved, our models solved.

GPT-5 tried seven times to solve that last problem.

It was just like something else.

It was mind blowing.

They'd write solutions that were so bad that the little virtual computer the sandbox would give it would just crash.

Actually, we weren't expecting to get all of them right.

So let me give you a quick like summary of like how these competitions go.

We generally don't really like...

prep for them too much.

Usually it's say, Hey, like if we have enough time, a group of like two to three people can like form a rag tag team and just try to get something like this going.

So in this case, we had like three or so people from my team.

They flew out to Azerbaijan, which is, you know, way on the other side of the world.

We had somebody like, you know, back home here making sure everything was up and ready systems wise.

And yeah, like they were almost like hackathoning it.

They were just like up, you know, sitting there with everybody in the competition.

They had the same five hour limits.

They were just like eagerly looking at the problems.