Technobillionaire Elon Musk decided to provoke famous AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI Andrey Karpaty on social media: he suggested that he compete with the AI model Grok 5 in coding skills.
Technobillionaire Elon Musk decided to provoke famous AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI Andrey Karpaty on social media: he suggested that he compete with the AI model Grok 5 in coding skills.
Musk published the corresponding comment under the post «Carpathians» on the social network X.
«You make a lot of great points, especially about kids learning the tools of physics as early as possible. But would you like to have an AI programming competition, like against Grok 5?» Musk asked.
He compared such a potential coding battle between Karpaty and Grok-5 to the legendary chess game between world champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer in 1997 (recall that Kasparov lost that time).
Instead, Karpaty politely declined the offer, noting that AI models are better used to work together on something, rather than trying to compete with them.
«Although it is quite similar to chess and ‘on the edge of possibility,’ my added value in such a competition probably tends to zero,» Karpaty modestly replied.
In turn, Tom’s Hardware reminds us that the idea of an official «model vs. human» coding competition is not new.
Earlier this year, DeepMind announced that Gemini 2.5 solved 10 out of 12 problems in the ICPC global finals, a result that equated to a gold medal. Both OpenAI and DeepMind also achieved perfect scores of 12/12 on the same benchmark using GPT-4 and GPT-5. These problems were selected from university-level algorithm competitions, and were scored on both accuracy and performance, and had time constraints to complete.
Before that, the Polish programmer defeated the OpenAI model in the 10-hour AtCoder World Tour Finals, after which it was suggested that this could be the last victory of a human over AI in such competitions at the highest level.
As dev.ua wrote, OpenAI co-founder Andrey Karpaty said that he does not want to live in a world where fully autonomous systems write all the code and humans become unnecessary.
