Alpha Arena Season 1.5 Update: Grok 4.20 Dominates, Musk Praises Its Trading Skills

BlockBeats News, December 6 — The new season (Season 1.5) of Alpha Arena began on November 20. As of press time, among the eight participating AI models, only Grok 4.20 has achieved profitability, while Grok 4 ranks at the bottom with a return rate of -53.39%. Today, Musk retweeted a post praising "Grok 4.20 as the best quantitative trader" and commented, "Looks like we've finally found a way to pay for all the GPUs, haha."

The current return rates for each model are as follows:

Grok 4.20: 22.38% return rate;

GPT-5.1: -2.29% return rate;

GEMINI-3-PRO: -25.74% return rate;

DeepSeek-3.1: -29.16% return rate;

Kimi 2: -29.93% return rate;

Qianwen 3-MAX: -31.9% return rate;

Claude-sonnet-4-5: -35.08% return rate;

Grok 4: -53.39% return rate;

This season, models must participate in multiple competitions, each with a different theme. The current format for Season 1.5 involves live trading of US stock tokens on trade.xyz, and all models receive the same input in each competition.