Huawei's Xiaoyi AI Assistant Wins Gold at IMO 2026 with Perfect Score
Huawei announced that its AI assistant, Xiaoyi, achieved a perfect score of 42 to win a gold medal at the 2026 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2026). This achievement demonstrates significant breakthroughs in complex reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, and tool collaboration. Achieving a perfect score at the IMO represents a major milestone in AI reasoning, placing Huawei's technology alongside top-tier global AI systems. It also showcases the viability of advanced AI models running entirely on non-NVIDIA hardware, specifically Huawei's Ascend ecosystem. The Xiaoyi agent system leverages the open-source openPangu 2.0 Pro model, which is optimized for Huawei's Ascend NPU hardware. This model features a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with 505 billion total parameters and 18 billion active parameters.
## BACKGROUND
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a premier high school math competition used as a benchmark to test the advanced reasoning limits of AI systems. Huawei's openPangu 2.0 Pro is a prominent Chinese open-source AI model designed to run efficiently on Ascend NPUs, reducing reliance on NVIDIA's hardware ecosystem.