In brief
- AI models Grok, DeepSeek, and Claude are up big in a live, real-money crypto trading showdown.
- Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is the biggest loser of the bunch, underscoring reliability and transparency risks.
- The results deepen the divide between data-specialized and general-purpose AI approaches to finance.
In early innings, Elon Musk’s Grok, DeepSeek, and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 are emerging as the top performers in a real-money AI crypto trading showdown, each generating returns of over 25% so far while rival models have suffered heavy losses.
The “Alpha Arena,” a competition that pits prominent large language models against each other in the live cryptocurrency market, saw OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro with…
