I was recently in Palo Alto, and bumped into a newly founded startup (I don't remember the name unfortunately) who set themselves the grand the vision of exactly this: winning a gold medal on the international Olympiad using AI. Their plan was to build mostly on LLMs as a start, and iterate as they go. In their barebones office space, they had a poster with a countdown of the number of weeks till the event: it was 36 at the time.
It sounded interesting to wonder how far they could go with this kind of approach. I thought they were aiming for the moon: but also respected the boldness and determination. They had the funding to operate for at least a year, and were very focused to get there.
Seems like this prize will supr hundreds (or thousands) of teams competing in exactly this space. Perhaps it will have a similar effect like the $1M Netflix Prize in 2009 for recommendations algorithms!
It sounded interesting to wonder how far they could go with this kind of approach. I thought they were aiming for the moon: but also respected the boldness and determination. They had the funding to operate for at least a year, and were very focused to get there.
Seems like this prize will supr hundreds (or thousands) of teams competing in exactly this space. Perhaps it will have a similar effect like the $1M Netflix Prize in 2009 for recommendations algorithms!