July 21 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and OpenAI said their artificial-intelligence models won gold medals at a global mathematics competition, signaling a breakthrough in math capabilities in the race to build systems that can rival human intelligence.

Two AI models have achieved gold medal standard for the first time in a prestigious competition for young mathematicians – and their developers claim these AIs could soon crack tough scientific proble

Google DeepMind's Gemini AI won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad by solving complex math problems using natural language, marking a breakthrough in AI reasoning and human-level performance.

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Google said its AI model won gold medal at a global mathematics competition, while Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI also claimed that its experimental reasoning model achieved a gold medal-level performance.

The announcement follows Google's July 2024 claim that its AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 models earned a silver medal equivalent at the IMO—though Google's systems required up to three days per problem rather than the 4.5-hour human time limit and needed human assistance to translate problems into formal mathematical language.

Humans still have the upper hand at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), but AI is closing in fast. At this year's event, held in Australia, five young math whizzes notched perfect scores, while generative AI models from Google and OpenAI landed gold-level results by racking up 35 out of a possible 42 points—a first for the machines at