India, Aug. 10 -- OpenAI's ChatGPT o3 model defeated Elon Musk's xAI model Grok 4 in the final of a Kaggle-hosted tournament that set out to find the strongest chess-playing large language model (LLM). The event, held over three days, pitted general-purpose LLMs from several companies against each other rather than specialised chess engines.

Eight models took part, including entries from OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic and Chinese developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. The contest used standard chess rules but tested multi-purpose LLMs, systems that are not specifically optimised for chess play. BBC coverage of the event noted that Google's Gemini finished third after beating another OpenAI entry.Mobile Finder: iPhone 17 Air expected to deb...