Gemini just aced the world's most elite coding competition - what it means for AGI

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• A Gemini model won gold at a challenging coding competition.
• The model correctly answered 10 out of 12 problems.
• The win could have major implications for AGI, says Google.

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become an integral part of many software developers' toolkits, helping them build, refine, and deploy apps more quickly and effectively. Now, Google says that one of its most advanced models has achieved a major coding breakthrough that could help lead to new scientific discoveries -- including, potentially, the attainment of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

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