Elon Musk has data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1979674580710199447?s=31″ data-url=”https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1979674580710199447?s=31″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm”>IBM’s Deep Blue. Karpathy declined, saying he’d rather collaborate with Grok than compete against it.
The challenge came in response to a clip from Karpathy’s recent interview on the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he argued that AGI is likely still a decade away and described Grok 5 as trailing GPT-4 by several months.
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Musk, who…
