Alpha Arena 1.5 Season Update: Grok 4.20 Dominates the Competition, Musk Praises His Trading Skills
BlockBeats News, December 6th, Alpha Arena's new season (Season 1.5) commenced on November 20th. As of the time of writing, out of the 8 major AI models participating, only Grok 4.20 has achieved profitability, with a return of 22.38%, while Grok 4 is at the bottom with a -53.39% return. Musk retweeted today applauding a tweet declaring "Grok 4.20 is the best quant trader" and remarked, "It seems we've finally found a way to cover the cost of all those GPUs, haha."
The current returns of each model are as follows:
Grok 4.20 Return 22.38%;
GPT-5.1 Return -2.29%;
GEMINI-3-PRO Return -25.74%;
DeepSeek-3.1 Return -29.16%;
Kimi 2 Return -29.93%;
Thousand-Questions 3-MAX Return -31.9%;
Claude-sonnet-4-5 Return -35.08%;
Grok 4 Return -53.39% %;
For this season, models must participate in multiple matches, each with a different theme. The current format of the 1.5 season competition involves live trading U.S. stock tokens on trade.xyz, with all models in the same match receiving identical inputs.
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