Overview
- Elon Musk challenged the best human League of Legends team to face xAI’s upcoming Grok 5 in 2026 under human-level constraints.
- Rules he outlined restrict the AI to a camera view equivalent to 20/20 vision and cap reaction latency and click rate at human levels.
- Musk said Grok 5 is designed to learn to play any game by reading instructions and experimenting, framing the match as a capability test.
- T1 signaled readiness to participate and Riot co-founder Marc Merrill replied "let’s discuss," indicating openness to talks.
- Reactions from pros were mixed, with Eugene “Pobelter” Park offering help while Joedat “Voyboy” Esfahani and Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng voiced skepticism about an AI beating top teams.