Comment by simianwords 2 days ago
https://x.com/sama/status/1946569252296929727
>we achieved gold medal level performance on the 2025 IMO competition with a general-purpose reasoning system! to emphasize, this is an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system; it is part of our main push towards general intelligence.
asterisks mine
This model can’t be used for say questions on biology or history.
Sam specifically says it is general purpose and also this
> Typically for these AI results, like in Go/Dota/Poker/Diplomacy, researchers spend years making an AI that masters one narrow domain and does little else. But this isn’t an IMO-specific model. It’s a reasoning LLM that incorporates new experimental general-purpose techniques.
DeepSeekMath-V2 is also an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system. What interpretation of "general purpose" were you using where one of them is "general purpose" and the other isn't?