Battle Update: Inaugural AI Chess Matchup, Musk Grok4 Comes Out Ahead

Google launched its first Kaggle AI chess competition, with models including O3 and o4-mini of OpenAI, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2, Gemini 2.5 series, Claude Opus 4 and Grok 4; after the first day, Grok 4 performed best, showing the tactical strategy and speed of the “GM level” and advanced with Gemini 2.5 Pro in the semi-finals; DeepSeek R1 began with a strong but too4-mini, Kimi K2 was “spoiled” because of repeated illegal chess steps,” which experts considered to be the ideal scene for testing AI's ability to emerge。