China’s budget AI bots smash ChatGPT in crypto trading face-off

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The Chinese fund AI exemplary QWEN3 was the lone 1 to make affirmative returns, portion its much heavy funded competitors each returned important losses.

China’s fund AI bots smash ChatGPT successful crypto trading face-off

Two Chinese artificial quality chatbots outperformed immoderate of the world’s astir precocious models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, successful an autonomous cryptocurrency trading contention that ended Tuesday.

Budget AI models QWEN3 MAX and DeepSeek finished archetypal and 2nd successful the trading challenge, outpacing higher-profile and much costly competitors.

QWEN3 was the lone AI chatbot to make affirmative returns, making a full nett of $751 astatine a 7.5% instrumentality rate, portion each different AI bots ended the contention successful the red, according to information aggregator CoinGlass.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT brought up the rear with a 57% loss, reducing its archetypal concern of $10,000 to conscionable $4,272 by the extremity of the competition.

To triumph the trading competition, QWEN3 was moving a 20x leveraged agelong presumption connected Bitcoin (BTC), arsenic the AI models lone unfastened positions arsenic of Wednesday.

QWEN 3 initiated the leveraged stake erstwhile Bitcoin traded astatine $104,556 and stands to beryllium liquidated if BTC falls beneath $100,630, CoinGlass information shows.

Before the extremity of the competition, QWEN 3 has chiefly maintained leveraged agelong positions connected Bitcoin, Ether (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE).

OpenAI’s ChatGPT underperforms successful crypto trading, contempt a monolithic budget

The astonishing results of the contention underscore that adjacent the astir heavy funded AI models inactive deficiency real-time capabilities successful crypto trading.

ChatGPT came successful past contempt OpenAI spending $5.7 cardinal connected probe and improvement initiatives successful the archetypal fractional of 2025 alone, according to Reuters.

While QWEN3’s fund is not public, the model’s grooming whitethorn person outgo betwixt $10 cardinal and $20 million, according to estimates from instrumentality learning technologist Aakarshit Srivastava.

DeepSeek took 2nd place, contempt being developed astatine a full grooming outgo of $5.3 million, according to the model’s method paper.

Alpha Arena’s competition began with $200 successful starting superior for each bot, which was aboriginal accrued to $10,000 per model, with trades executed connected the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid.