Benchmark Almanac

OlympicArena

GPT-4o May 2024 40.5% leads since Jun 2024 Dropped

Models solve 11,163 bilingual problems from 62 international olympiad competitions in seven fields, some with images. Answers are checked against keys.

Fields are math, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, astronomy and computer science. Baidu reports it under math.

In the authors’ words

The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been significantly accelerated by advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), gradually showcasing potential cognitive reasoning abilities in problem-solving and scientific discovery (i.e., AI4Science) once exclusive to human intellect. To comprehensively evaluate current models' performance in cognitive reasoning abilities, we introduce OlympicArena, which includes 11,163 bilingual problems across both text-only and interleaved text-image modalities. These challenges encompass a wide range of disciplines spanning seven fields and 62 international Olympic competitions, rigorously examined for data leakage. We argue that the challenges in Olympic competition problems are ideal for evaluating AI's cognitive reasoning due to their complexity and interdisciplinary nature, which are essential for tackling complex scientific challenges and facilitating discoveries. Beyond evaluating performance across various disciplines using answer-only criteria, we conduct detailed experiments and analyses from multiple perspectives. We delve into the models' cognitive reasoning abilities, their performance across different modalities, and their outcomes in process-level evaluations, which are vital for tasks requiring complex reasoning with lengthy solutions. Our extensive evaluations reveal that even advanced models like GPT-4o only achieve a 39.97% overall accuracy, illustrating current AI limitations in complex reasoning and multimodal integration. Through the OlympicArena, we aim to advance AI towards superintelligence, equipping it to address more complex challenges in science and beyond. We also provide a comprehensive set of resources to support AI research, including a benchmark dataset, an open-source annotation platform, a detailed evaluation tool, and a leaderboard with automatic submission features.

Abstract of OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI (arXiv:2406.12753, CC0)
Made by Shanghai Jiao Tong University GAIR Lab Released Jun 2024 Science olympiads Public tasks plus a private test set Last in a launch post Jun 2025 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Jun 2025 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
29
Entries on its own leaderboard, 25 models we track
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

GPT-4o leads with 40.5% among models released by Jul 2024

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on 2 Nov 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.

The newest model with a score here came out in Jul 2024, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 GPT-4o May 2024 40.5%
  2. 2 Claude 3.5 Sonnet 39.2%
  3. 3 Spark 4.0-2024-10-14 36.7%
  4. 4 Doubao-Pro-32k 35.4%
  5. 5 Gemini 1.5 Pro May 2024 35.1%
  6. 6 DeepSeek-Coder-V2 236B 34.1%
  7. 7 Qwen2-72B 34.1%
  8. 8 GPT-4o mini 34.1%
  9. 9 GPT-4V 33.2%
  10. 10 Llama 3-70B 26.7%
  11. 11 Gemma 2 27B 26.3%
  12. 12 Claude 3 Sonnet 25.5%
  13. 13 Qwen1.5-32B 24.4%
  14. 14 Internlm-2.5-7B-Chat 21.7%
  15. 15 Qwen-VL-Max 21.4%
  16. 16 Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision 21%
  17. 17 Mathstral-7B-v0.1 20.1%
  18. 18 InternVL2-40B 20%
  19. 19 Llama 3.1-8B 19.4%
  20. 20 InternVL2-8B 18.5%
  21. 21 LLaVA-v1.6-34B 18.2%
  22. 22 Yi-34B 18%
  23. 23 MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 17.4%
  24. 24 InternVL-Chat-V1-5 17.4%
  25. 25 Internlm2-Chat-20B 17.3%
  26. 26 Yi-VL-34B 15.1%
  27. 27 InternLM-XComposer2.5-7B 12.7%
  28. 28 Qwen-VL-Chat 7.34%
  29. 29 Qwen-7B 4.34%
#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-4o May 2024 40.5% May 2024 Official leaderboard
2 Claude 3.5 Sonnet 39.2% Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
3 Spark 4.0-2024-10-14 36.7% Dec 2024 Official leaderboard
4 Doubao-Pro-32k 35.4% Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
5 Gemini 1.5 Pro May 2024 35.1% May 2024 Official leaderboard
6 DeepSeek-Coder-V2 236B 34.1% Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
7 Qwen2-72B 34.1% Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
8 GPT-4o mini 34.1% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
9 GPT-4V 33.2% Nov 2023 Official leaderboard
10 Llama 3-70B 26.7% Apr 2024 Official leaderboard
11 Gemma 2 27B 26.3% Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
12 Claude 3 Sonnet 25.5% Feb 2024 Official leaderboard
13 Qwen1.5-32B 24.4% Feb 2024 Official leaderboard
14 Internlm-2.5-7B-Chat 21.7% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
15 Qwen-VL-Max 21.4% Jan 2024 Official leaderboard
16 Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision 21% Jan 2024 Official leaderboard
17 Mathstral-7B-v0.1 20.1% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
18 InternVL2-40B 20% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
19 Llama 3.1-8B 19.4% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
20 InternVL2-8B 18.5% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
21 LLaVA-v1.6-34B 18.2% Jan 2024 Official leaderboard
22 Yi-34B 18% Nov 2023 Official leaderboard
23 MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 17.4% May 2024 Official leaderboard
24 InternVL-Chat-V1-5 17.4% Apr 2024 Official leaderboard
25 Internlm2-Chat-20B 17.3% Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
26 Yi-VL-34B 15.1% Dec 2023 Official leaderboard
27 InternLM-XComposer2.5-7B 12.7% Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
28 Qwen-VL-Chat 7.34% Aug 2023 Official leaderboard
29 Qwen-7B 4.34% Sep 2023 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 1 model in their cards. We plot every source in the charts below.

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

OpenAI
Own leaderboard Not tested since Jul 2024
GPT-4o 40.5%

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B GPT-4o GPT-4V Yi-34B Qwen-VL-Chat 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B GPT-4o

No launch post has listed it since Jun 2025

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Baidu
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
30 Jun 2025 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 75.3 OlympicArena

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
29 Jun 2025 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B technical report 75.3 OlympicArena (Table 5) Capabilities

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  • Terminal-Bench-Science In use 70 scientific research-workflow tasks across five science areas, run in Harbor containers. Hidden tests give the resolution rate. GPT-6 Astra 68.1%
  • FrontierScience In use Models solve physics, chemistry, and biology problems in an Olympiad track graded by short answer and a Research track graded by 10-point rubrics. Intern-S2-397B 87%
  • BioMysteryBench In use Bioinformatics problems on anonymized real datasets that require real analysis with tools. Rubric-graded, with human-solvable and human-difficult splits. Claude Opus 5 90.1%
  • HiPhO In use Models solve theory problems from 2024 and 2025 physics olympiad exams, some with diagrams. Official marking schemes grade answers and steps, mapped to medal levels. Gemini 3 Pro 78.3%
  • LABBench2 In use 11 biology research sub-tasks (literature, figures, tables, patents, trials and more) with tool access. Macro-averaged accuracy. GPT-5.2 60.9%