{"id":1759,"date":"2025-08-08T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:02:32","slug":"russian-teens-sweep-gold-at-global-ai-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/russian-teens-sweep-gold-at-global-ai-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian teens sweep gold at global AI contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second International Olympiad on Artificial Intelligence for middle school students was held in China from August 2\u20138<\/strong><\/p>\n

A team of Russian middle-schoolers has won eight medals at the second International Olympiad on Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in China, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

The team brought home six golds, one silver, and one bronze \u2013 the highest number of gold medals among all participants.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2024, the IOAI presents itself as the world\u2019s first high-level academic AI tournament for middle school students. This year\u2019s event took place in Beijing from August 2 to 8, bringing together 310 students from 61 countries and regions, including the US, China, India, Sweden, Japan, Poland, Brazil, and the UAE.<\/p>\n

In the team round, students developed solutions within a simulated smart factory environment, with the top 10 teams seeing their solutions tested on real factory hardware. Russia\u2019s team entered the top 10 on day one and finished second overall, while two Polish teams took first and third.<\/p>\n

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The two-day individual round involved machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. Other gold medals went to students from Kazakhstan (3), Poland (3), India (3), Romania, Sweden, Vietnam, China and Japan.<\/p>\n

Chernyshenko praised the Russian students for their talent, persistence, and knowledge, crediting their success to Russia\u2019s strong physics and mathematics schools and ongoing national investment in AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Vladimir Putin set the goal \u2013 Russia should become a world leader not only in creating but also applying AI across all sectors,\u201d<\/em> he told TASS. \u201cThese students are worthy successors of that tradition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The victory boosts Russia\u2019s total student medal count to 29 across all international competitions so far this year, according to Chernyshenko.<\/p>\n

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Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov also lauded the win, calling it \u201can important contribution of education to the future of the economy and digital maturity of the state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure it is these talented kids who will drive science and innovation forward,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

The third edition of the IOAI will be held in Abu Dhabi in 2026, hosted by the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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