Sam Altman’s AI model has defeated Elon Musk’s Grok in the first-of-its-kind chess tournament between leading artificial intelligence systems.
OpenAI’s o3 model dominated the Kaggle AI Exhibition Tournament, defeating xAI’s Grok 4, with a flawless 4-0 in the final.
This AI chess tournament featured eight large language models from top tech companies, including Google, Anthropic, and Moonshot AI. o3 remained undefeated throughout the competition, showcasing its strategic prowess and ability to adopt to complex situations.
This matchup was particularly worth watching given the history between OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI before Musk departed to launch his own AI company.
Elon Musk, however, downplayed grok 4’s chess performance, stating that xAI “spent almost no effort on chess.”
OpenAI’s o3 model remained undefeated throughout the tournament. In contrast, Grok 4 struggled in the final, making critical errors like losing its queen multiple times.
Computer have been able to defeat the best humans at chess since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated the then-world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997.
