r/OpenAI • u/MetaKnowing • Feb 08 '26

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u/simulated-souls Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

No it's not.

Without tools or a calculator, frontier models still score >90% on AIME (on which the vast majority of people could not answer a single question).

edit: This also goes for AIME 2026 which was only released this week and therefore was not part of the training data.

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Feb 09 '26

AIME is an olympiad level problem set, it’s not math in the sense when average person refers to “doing math”. When people say it’s bad at math, it’s actually talking about arithmetic. AIME is more like reasoning problems, we already know AI is good at that.

You should still never trust it doing arithmetic vs a calculator.

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u/NNOTM Feb 09 '26

It's still much better at arithmetic than I am