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Oct. 21, 2025, 10:15 a.m.
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DeepSeek Outperforms GPT-5 in Alpha Arena AI Crypto Trading Experiment

A new real-market cryptocurrency trading experiment, which pits leading artificial intelligence models against each other to assess their investing skills, has so far seen a DeepSeek model outperform its competitors. Alpha Arena, launched last Friday by the US research firm Nof1, provided six large language models (LLMs) with US$10, 000 each to trade six cryptocurrency perpetual contracts on the decentralised exchange Hyperliquid, involving assets such as bitcoin and solana. By 2pm on Tuesday, DeepSeek’s V3. 1 led with a 10. 11 percent profit, while the lowest performer was OpenAI’s GPT-5, which suffered losses of 39. 73 percent. The other LLMs participating in this initial round of the experiment, which runs through November 3, include Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen 3 Max, Anthropic’s Claude 4. 5 Sonnet, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2. 5 Pro, and xAI’s Grok 4. (Alibaba Cloud is the AI and cloud computing division of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the Post. ) “Our goal with Alpha Arena is to create benchmarks that mirror real-world conditions, and markets are ideal for this, ” the Alpha Arena website stated.

They describe markets as “dynamic, adversarial, open-ended and endlessly unpredictable, ” adding that markets “challenge AI in ways that static benchmarks cannot. ”



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A new cryptocurrency trading experiment, Alpha Arena, launched by US research firm Nof1, is testing the investing abilities of six leading large language models (LLMs) in real market conditions. Each model was given $10,000 to trade six cryptocurrency perpetual contracts, including bitcoin and solana, on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. As of Tuesday, DeepSeek’s V3.1 led with a 10.11% profit, while OpenAI’s GPT-5 performed worst with a 39.73% loss. Other participants include Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen 3 Max, Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, and xAI’s Grok 4. Running until November 3, the experiment aims to create more realistic AI benchmarks by using markets, which are dynamic, adversarial, and unpredictable, to challenge AI in ways static tests cannot.

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