OpenAI’s ChatGPT O3 model defeated Elon Musk’s Grok in the finals of the AI chess tournament on August 7, adding fuel to the ongoing rivalry between the two companies.
Chess is known around the world as a game of intelligence, and for decades, major technology companies have often used it to evaluate the progress and power of computers. Today’s modern chess machines are virtually invincible against even the best human players.
Notably, this competition did not involve computers designed for chess; according to the BBC, it was held primarily among AI programs designed for everyday use.
In the tournament finals, OpenAI’s ChatGPT O3 model defeated xAI’s model Grok 4 on the last day.
Google’s model Gemini is not far behind, defeating another OpenAI model and taking third place in the tournament.
This AI is improving at chess—but billionaire Musk’s Grok made several mistakes in the last game, including repeatedly losing the queen.
Pedro Pinhata, a writer for Chess.com, said in the coverage that “up until the semifinals, it seemed like nothing would be able to stop Grok 4 on its way to winning the event.”
“Despite a few moments of weakness, X’s AI (artificial intelligence) seemed to be by far the strongest chess player… But the illusion fell through on the last day of the tournament,” said Pinhata.
According to chess player Hikaru Nakamura, who achieved the title of Grandmaster in 2003 at the age of just 15, Grok made many mistakes in these games, but OpenAI did not.
Why This Competition Was Held
The AI Chess tournament was held over three days on the Google-owned platform Kaggle, where eight large language models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI, as well as Chinese developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, competed against each other.
This chess competition gives data scientists the opportunity to evaluate their systems and assess the capabilities of AI models.
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(Source: BBC)