As Will points out, there were two recent wins for OpenAI in its efforts to build AI that outcompetes humans. Its models took second place at a top-level coding competition and--alongside those from Google DeepMind--achieved gold-medal-level results in the 2025 International Math Olympiad. People who believe that AI doesn't pose genuine competition to human-level intelligence might actually take some comfort in that. AI is good at the mathematical and analytical, which are on full display in olympiads and coding competitions. That doesn't mean it's any good at grappling with the messiness of human emotions, making hard decisions, or creating art that resonates with anyone. But that distinction--between machine-like reasoning and the ability to think creatively--is not one OpenAI's heads of research are inclined to make.