Ahmed El-Kishky

So in this case, we knew that GPT-5 can go a long way, but we wanted to not just limit it there.

We wanted to also test how well our reasoning models perform.

And so we tried out both.

There's no reason to do one.

We were looking to see a system that could push the frontiers of these competitive programming competitions.

And so it was a very simple approach here.

It was just like both GPT-5 and the IMO model, the experimental reasoning model, would take each problem and they would try to solve it.

They would try to solve it, you know, multiple times.

They would get like a collection of solutions.

And then the experimental reasoning model would be like, I like the solution the most.

Let's submit this one.

Wow.

It was a good model or it was a good approach just because we had two models.

So the two models, you know, they have some diversity there.

They think a little bit differently.

So that helps.

But the experimental reasoning model is just a more powerful model.

GBD-5 is, you know, a bit faster.

So I was able to get the answers quickly.

But ultimately...