OpenAI Five Benchmark
The OpenAI Five Benchmark match is now over!
We’ll be holding our final live event for OpenAI Five at 11:30am PT on April 13.
The OpenAI Five Benchmark match is now over!
Our second class of OpenAI Scholars has concluded, with all eight scholars producing an exciting final project showcased at Scholars Demo Day at OpenAI.
Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams at Dota 2.
We’re hosting our third annual OpenAI DevDay on October 6, 2025 at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
OpenAI Five lost two games against top Dota 2 players at The International in Vancouver this week, maintaining a good chance of winning for the first 20–35 minutes of both games.
Our third class of OpenAI Scholars presented their final projects at virtual Demo Day, showcasing their research results from over the past five months.
OpenAI Five is the first AI to beat the world champions in an esports game, having won two back-to-back games versus the world champion Dota 2 team, OG, at Finals this weekend. Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar had previously beaten good pros privately but lost their live pro matches, making this also the first time an AI has beaten esports pros on livestream.
Yesterday, OpenAI Five won a best-of-three against a team of 99. 95th percentile Dota players: Blitz, Cap, Fogged, Merlini, and MoonMeander—four of whom have played Dota professionally—in front of a live audience and 100,000 concurrent livestream viewers.
Our first cohort of OpenAI Scholars has now completed the program.
We’re proud to announce that the 2021 class of OpenAI Scholars has completed our six-month mentorship program and have produced an open-source research project with stipends and support from OpenAI.
Developer registration for in-person attendance will open in the coming weeks and developers everywhere will be able to livestream the keynote.
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