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.
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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.
The OpenAI Five Benchmark match is now over!
Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams at Dota 2.
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.
We’ll be holding our final live event for OpenAI Five at 11:30am PT on April 13.