PYMNTS.com February 11, 2025
The race to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) engineering agents that can rival — and even replace — human software engineers is accelerating.
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that by the end of the year, the company’s most advanced AI reasoning model could rank first in competitive programming contests in the world.
During a recent Q&A panel at the University of Tokyo, he said the first version of its reasoning model ranked one millionth among competitive programmers globally. Then it reached 10,000th place. OpenAI’s latest and most powerful reasoning model — o3 — was able to reach 175th place.
“Maybe we’ll hit no. 1 by the end of the year,” Altman said. “That’s like an amazing rate of scale...
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