Openai defeats Elon Musk's Grok with AI Chess Tournament

Chatgpt-Maker Openai defeated Elon Musk's Grok in the tournament final to win the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player.

Historically, tech companies have often used chess to assess computer progress and capabilities. Modern chess machines are virtually invincible even for top human players.

However, the competition did not include computers designed for chess. Instead, it was held between AI programs designed for everyday use.

Openai's O3 model was undefeated in the tournament, beating Xai's model Grok 4 in the final, adding fuel to the ongoing rivalry fire between the two companies.

Openai co-founders Musk and Sam Altman claim that the latest models are the smartest in the world.

Google's model Gemini took third place in the tournament after beating another Openai model.

However, these AIs are talented in many everyday tasks, but still improve in chess.

“It seemed like we couldn't stop the Grok 4 to win the event until the semi-finals,” Chess.com writer Pedro Pinhata said in the report.

“In spite of the moment of weakness, X's AI looked like a much stronger chess player… but the illusion fell on the final day of the tournament.”

He said Grok's “unrecognized” and “brandering” plays allowed O3 to claim the inheritance of “persuasive victory.”

“Glock made so many mistakes in these games, but the Open wasn't,” said Chess Grandmaster Nakamura during the live stream of the final.

Before Thursday's final, Musk said in a post for X that Xai's previous success in the tournament was a “side effect” and “expended little effort on chess.”

The AI Chest Tournament was held on the Google-owned platform Kaggle. This allows data scientists to evaluate the system through competition.

Eight large-scale language models of humanity, Google, Openai, Xai and Chinese developers Deepseek and Moonshot AI fought each other during Kaggle's three-day tournament.

AI developers use tests known as benchmarks to examine model skills in areas such as inference and coding.

As a complex rule base, the strategy game, Chess and Go, has often been used to assess the ability of models to learn how to achieve the most specific outcomes.

Alphago, a computer program developed by Google's AI Lab to play the Chinese two-player strategy game GO, claimed a series of victories over the Humango Champions in the late 2010s.

South Korea's Go Masterly Sedol retired in 2019 after several defeats by the Alphago.

“There are entities that cannot be defeated,” he told Yonghap News Agency.

Demis Hassabis ir, one of the co-founders of Deepmind, is a former chess genius himself.

Meanwhile, in the late 1990s, chess champions were pitted against powerful computers.

The victory of Deep Blue was considered a groundbreaking moment in demonstrating the power of computers to suit a particular human skill.

Twenty years later, Kasparov compared that intelligence to that of an alarm clock, saying, “It doesn't make you feel better if you lose to a $10 million (£7.6 million) alarm clock.”