Sam Altman's OpenAI Crushes Elon Musk's Grok in AI Chess Championship

Key Points

1. OpenAI's o3 won against Elon Musk's Grok in four straight games in Google's Kaggle Game Arena AI Chess Exhibition.

2. The tournament required general-purpose chatbots to play chess without any specialized training, resulting in erratic gameplay.

3. Magnus Carlsen estimated the AIs' chess skills at around 800 ELO, far below human grandmaster levels.

4. Grok made significant mistakes, such as misplaying the 'Poisoned Pawn' strategy and losing pieces rapidly.

5. Elon Musk downplayed Grok's chess performance, calling it a 'side effect' and noting minimal effort was spent on chess training.