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The post Elon Musk backs xAI’s Grok 5 to defeat top League of Legends players by 2026 appeared com. Elon Musk wants to use Grok 5 to beat a top human League of Legends team in 2026, and he is asking developers to join xAI’s gaming platform to improve its artificial general intelligence (AGI) capabilities to play games. The xAI and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has pitted xAI’s upcoming AI model Grok 5 against some of the world’s best professional League of Legends players, looking for a match sometime in 2026. Musk announced the competition on the social platform X on Tuesday, asking developers to join xAI’s gaming studio to improve the new model’s prowess in video games. “Let’s see if Grok 5 can beat the best human team League Of Legends in 2026 with these important constraints: Can only look at the monitor with a camera, seeing no more than what a person with 20/20 vision would see. Reaction latency and click rate no faster than humans,” he wrote on X. Elon Musk ‘ambitious’ with Grok 5 gaming aspirations Grok 5’s release was initially meant for this year, but Elon Musk announced in mid-November it was delayed to early 2026. According to chatter from sources closer to xAI, the upcoming iteration has 60 trillion parameters and supports multimodal capabilities to process both visual and textual information. Let’s see if @Grok 5 can beat the best human team @LeagueOfLegends in 2026 with these important constraints: 1. Can only look at the monitor with a camera, seeing no more than what a person with 20/20 vision would see. 2. Reaction latency and click rate no faster than human.- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2025 xAI estimates there is a 10% chance that Grok 5 could achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), surpassing previous AI benchmarks of its prior versions. In 2019, its competition, OpenAI group of Five became the first.