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The Metis List of Top AI Researchers, High Schoolers Beat AI At Math Olympiad, Apple Might Ditch Camera Bump, GPT-5 Rumors Heating Up | Ryan Petersen, Ty Haney, Antonio García Martínez, Ian Webster, Ori Eldarov, Aaron Tan

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Jul 29, 2025
Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport, shares insights on transforming logistics technology and his company's acquisition of Convoy’s tech. Ty Haney discusses revitalizing Outdoor Voices through community engagement, while Antonio García Martínez reveals the impact of Spindl's acquisition by Coinbase on on-chain advertising. Ian Webster highlights security challenges in generative AI, and Ori Eldarov explains how his AI-native investment bank is supporting underserved businesses. The group also humorously discusses high schoolers outperforming AI at a math Olympiad.
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INSIGHT

AI Outperformed But Not Dominant Yet

  • AI models from Google DeepMind and OpenAI achieved gold medals at IMO but were still outscored by 26 top human students.
  • This suggests humans currently retain superior creativity and ingenuity on novel math problems.
ANECDOTE

Human Insight Beats AI on Hardest IMO Problem

  • Tiger Zhang, a high school senior with multiple IMO gold medals, spent the most exam time on problem six, which stumped AI models.
  • His partial solution scored significantly higher than most, highlighting human insight in challenging combinatorics.
INSIGHT

AI Progress Follows Multi-Level Milestones

  • AI’s progress in complex tasks evolves in stages, from surpassing humans in chess to achieving novel strategies in Go.
  • Similarly, solving IMO problems fully and creatively represents the next AI performance milestone.
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