Elon Musk announced on the X platform that xAI's next-generation large model Grok5 will challenge the champion of the League of Legends S16 World Championship in 2026. The legendary team T1 has confirmed the match. The competition adopts a "human equivalent limitation" - AI can only watch the game through a camera, with vision and 20/20 eyesight, and reaction and click speed must not exceed that of human players. APIs, cheat data, or supercomputing resources are completely prohibited.
Core Rules
- Input source: A single 1080p camera captures the display screen in real time; it cannot read game memory
- Operation limit: Reaction delay ≥ 150ms, APM ≤ 300, aligned with the physiological limits of top human players
- Hardware: A standard e-sports desktop is provided on site, and the AI runs only the Grok5 inference container, with network isolation
Model Capabilities
Grok5 is a 6-trillion parameter MoE architecture, natively supports video stream understanding, and has a 68% pass rate on 300 visual reasoning tasks, approaching the human baseline of 75%. xAI considers this as a milestone with a 10% probability of AGI.
Competition Schedule
- Time: August 2026 (after the S16 World Championship)
- Location: Kia Forum in Los Angeles, main stage + live stream
- Format: BO5, if the AI wins 3 games, the match ends in victory; if humans win 3-0, the match ends early
- Audience: On-site tickets + global streaming, regardless of the outcome, T1 players will conduct strategy review interviews with the AI after the match
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