Google’s Q*?

While everyone was gung-ho about Google’s Gemini, they seemed to have overlooked AlphaCode 2, a competitive coding model fine-tuned from Gemini. This could well be the Q* moment for Google.

AlphaCode 2 on Codeforces witnessed 2x improvement over the prior record-setting AlphaCode system, which solved 25 percent. Mapping this to competition ranking, the team estimated that AlphaCode 2 is on average at the 85th percentile. In other words, it performs better than 85 percent of the participants, ranking between the ‘Expert’ and ‘Candidate Master’ categories on Codeforces.