{"slug": "i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldn-t-work", "title": "I Ran the 3B Model That Beat Gemini 3 Pro at Olympiad Math — It Shouldn't Work", "summary": "A 3-billion-parameter model from Weibo scored 94.3 on the AIME 2026 math Olympiad, outperforming Google's Gemini 3 Pro which scored 91.7. The model is MIT-licensed and its success challenges assumptions about model size and performance.", "body_md": "A 3-billion-parameter model just scored 94.3 on AIME 2026. Gemini 3 Pro scored 91.7. The 3B model is from Weibo, it is MIT-licensed, and…\nContinue reading on Towards AI »", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldn-t-work", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldnt-work-9326479e6857?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-06-19 06:38:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 06:40:18.291550+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Weibo", "Gemini 3 Pro", "Google", "AIME"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldn-t-work", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldn-t-work.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldn-t-work.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-ran-the-3b-model-that-beat-gemini-3-pro-at-olympiad-math-it-shouldn-t-work.jsonld"}}