OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, defeated Grok, owned by Elon Musk, in the championship match of the finest artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Since current chess machines are nearly invincible against even the best human players, tech corporations have historically frequently used chess to evaluate a computer’s development and capabilities.
Nevertheless, this tournament was between AI algorithms made for daily usage rather than chess-specific computers. An already-existing rivalry between the two companies was heightened when OpenAI’s o3 model won the event and defeated xAI’s Grok 4 model in the championship match.
Co-founders of OpenAI Musk and Sam Altman assert that their most recent models are the most intelligent in the world. After defeating another OpenAI model, Google’s model Gemini took third place in the competition.
Even though these AIs are skilled at many commonplace jobs, they are still becoming better at chess; in their last games, Grok made several mistakes, including losing its queen several times. Pedro Pinhata, a journalist for Chess.com, stated in its report that “it seemed like nothing would be able to stop Grok 4 on its way to winning the event” until the semi-finals.
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