Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 AI has won its first gold medal at an international programming competition, being considered an important step towards general artificial intelligence.

Google DeepMind has announced that the AI model Gemini 2.5 won a gold medal at an international programming competition in Azerbaijan, solving in less than 30 minutes a problem that none of the human teams could solve. The company considers this performance a major step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI).