Overview

• Dębiak secured first place with a score of 1.81×10^12 against the AI’s 1.65×10^12 in the ten-hour Tokyo final.
• He revealed on X that he was “barely alive” after logging just 10 hours of sleep across three days to compete.
• OpenAI hailed its model’s runner-up finish as the first top-three placement by one of its coding AIs in a premier contest.
• The challenge required identical hardware for all entrants, a ten-hour time limit and a mandatory five-minute pause between submissions.
• Industry analysts caution that as AI models rapidly advance, they may soon dominate coding competition leaderboards.