OlympicArena
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.
- 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.
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:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 40.5 GPT-4o
- 39.2 Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- 36.7 Spark 4.0-2024-10-14
- 35.4 Doubao-Pro-32k
- 35.1
Gemini 1.5 Pro
- 34.1
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 236B
- 34.1
Qwen2-72B
- 34.1 GPT-4o mini
- 33.2 GPT-4V
- 26.7
Llama 3-70B
- 26.3
Gemma 2 27B
- 25.5 Claude 3 Sonnet
- 24.4
Qwen1.5-32B
- 21.7 Internlm-2.5-7B-Chat
- 21.4 Qwen-VL-Max
- 21.0
Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision
- 20.1
Mathstral-7B-v0.1
- 20.0
InternVL2-40B
- 19.4
Llama 3.1-8B
- 18.5
InternVL2-8B
- 18.2
LLaVA-v1.6-34B
- 18.0
Yi-34B
- 17.4
MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5
- 17.4 InternVL-Chat-V1-5
- 17.3 Internlm2-Chat-20B
- 15.1
Yi-VL-34B
- 12.7
InternLM-XComposer2.5-7B
- 7.34 Qwen-VL-Chat
- 4.34
Qwen-7B
- 1 GPT-4o May 2024 40.5%
- 2 Claude 3.5 Sonnet 39.2%
- 3 Spark 4.0-2024-10-14 36.7%
- 4 Doubao-Pro-32k 35.4%
- 5
Gemini 1.5 Pro May 2024 35.1%
- 6
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 236B 34.1%
- 7
Qwen2-72B 34.1%
- 8 GPT-4o mini 34.1%
- 9 GPT-4V 33.2%
- 10
Llama 3-70B 26.7%
- 11
Gemma 2 27B 26.3%
- 12 Claude 3 Sonnet 25.5%
- 13
Qwen1.5-32B 24.4%
- 14 Internlm-2.5-7B-Chat 21.7%
- 15 Qwen-VL-Max 21.4%
- 16
Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision 21%
- 17
Mathstral-7B-v0.1 20.1%
- 18
InternVL2-40B 20%
- 19
Llama 3.1-8B 19.4%
- 20
InternVL2-8B 18.5%
- 21
LLaVA-v1.6-34B 18.2%
- 22
Yi-34B 18%
- 23
MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 17.4%
- 24 InternVL-Chat-V1-5 17.4%
- 25 Internlm2-Chat-20B 17.3%
- 26
Yi-VL-34B 15.1%
- 27
InternLM-XComposer2.5-7B 12.7%
- 28 Qwen-VL-Chat 7.34%
- 29
Qwen-7B 4.34%
| # | Entry | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | 35.1% | May 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | | 34.1% | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | | 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 | | 26.7% | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 11 | | 26.3% | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 12 | Claude 3 Sonnet | 25.5% | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | | 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 | | 21% | Jan 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | | 20.1% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | | 20% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 19 | | 19.4% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 20 | | 18.5% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 21 | | 18.2% | Jan 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 22 | | 18% | Nov 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 23 | | 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 | | 15.1% | Dec 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 27 | | 12.7% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 28 | Qwen-VL-Chat | 7.34% | Aug 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 29 | | 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.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2025 | 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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2025 | | 75.3 | OlympicArena (Table 5) | Capabilities |
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