Musk stated that Grok 5 will challenge the strongest LOL team next year! Will AGI welcome substantial breakthroughs?

Elon Musk dropped a bombshell today (25) on his personal X account: he plans for his AI startup xAI to develop the latest generation large language model “Grok 5” to officially challenge the world's strongest professional team in “League of Legends” in 2026, with extremely strict “fair play” rules. (Background: Is Grok going to replace Wikipedia? Musk revealed that xAI is developing “Grokipedia”: a massive improvement over Wikipedia) (Additional context: Musk's xAI is entering the U.S. government! Federal agencies will integrate Grok, with an annual fee of $0.42, half the price of OpenAI) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell today (25) on his personal X account: he plans for his AI startup xAI to develop the latest generation large language model “Grok 5” to officially challenge the world's strongest professional team in “League of Legends” in 2026, with extremely strict “fair play” rules. Musk has set two major constraints: first, Grok 5 can only view the screen through a regular camera, and its vision cannot exceed the normal human vision range of 20/20, completely unable to access internal game data, APIs, or any metadata; second, the reaction latency and mouse click speed must not be faster than top human players, completely eliminating the AI's “superhuman reaction” advantage. Musk emphasized that the design goal of Grok 5 is “to learn to play any game like a human simply by reading the game manual.” He believes that defeating the world champion under these conditions of “pure vision + pure human speed” would be the strongest proof of a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence (AGI). At the end of the post, he directly called on engineers worldwide: “Those who want to solve the key puzzle of AGI, welcome to join xAI!” 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 Current known information about Grok 5 Grok 5 is still in the training phase and is expected to officially launch in the first quarter of 2026. However, according to public data, the parameters and data regarding Grok 5 may include: Parameter scale: about 6 trillion, double that of Grok 4, which will bring stronger reasoning ability, real-time learning, and complex task processing capabilities. Core capabilities: multimodal (text, images, video, audio), real-time reinforcement learning, tool usage Training resources: xAI's “Colossus 2” supercomputer (550,000 GPUs) Ultimate goal: to become the first AI that can defeat top human esports players under “no cheating” conditions, serving as a milestone for the arrival of AGI Related reports: Is Gemini 3 coming? Leaks on X suggest performance surpassing GPT-5 and Grok 4 Musk is angry! xAI sues former engineer for stealing Grok secrets, cashing out $7 million to join OpenAI Musk's xAI launches “Grok Code Fast 1” programming model: Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf… free for a limited time, achieving breakthroughs in speed, scale, and price <Musk claims Grok 5 will challenge the strongest team in LOL next year! Will AGI see a substantial breakthrough?> This article was first published by BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media.