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Rijit Banerjee

Could Grok 5 beat the best League of Legends team in 2026? Elon Musk wants to find out

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been pushing the limits of AI Grok’s abilities, and he is challenging the best League of Legends esports team from 2026 to have an exhibition match with the AI under strictly human-like constraints.

Under Musk’s rules, Grok 5 would behave like any human player, would only be allowed to look at the game via a camera pointed at the monitor, no access to game code, data feeds, or hidden metadata. Its reaction times, click rates, and even vision would be capped at human standards. 

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