Gemini 2.5 Historic Breakthrough: DeepMind’s ICPC Gold Signals New Era in AI Reasoning
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 historic breakthrough at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the latest—and loudest—signal that frontier models are getting better at truly hard reasoning. In Azerbaijan, Gemini 2.5 achieved gold-level performance by cracking a real-world optimization task—distributing liquid through a complex duct network—that eluded elite human teams. The model…