OpenAI Five
World Champion Dota 2 Team
ArchivedGaming AI
Curator Notes
OpenAI Five achieved what many considered impossible—defeating the Dota 2 world champions in a best-of-three series. The system trained on the equivalent of 180 years of gameplay daily, using 256 GPUs and 128,000 CPU cores over 10 months. During a public event, OpenAI Five won 99.4% of 42,729 games against human players. Perhaps most remarkable: despite training exclusively in competitive settings, OpenAI Five demonstrated emergent cooperative behavior when teamed with humans. The project's techniques were later adapted for physical robotics, demonstrating transfer potential beyond gaming.
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Score Rationale
Persistence — Active 2018-2019. Defeated world champions April 2019. Public play event same month. Project concluded after achieving goal.
Autonomy — Five agents coordinating as team with no human input. 80,000 decisions per game at 30fps for 45+ minutes. Full tactical and strategic autonomy in real-time.
Cultural Impact — First AI to defeat esports world champions (OG at The International). 99.4% win rate against public (42,729 games). Global media coverage. Landmark achievement in AI history.
Economic Reality — Research project with no commercial deployment. Open public event but no monetization.
Governance — OpenAI corporate research governance. Public play event was engagement but not governance.
Technical Architecture — Unprecedented scale: 770 PFlops/s·days compute, 256 GPUs, 128,000 CPU cores. 180 years of self-play daily. 150M+ parameters. Transferred techniques to robotics (robot hand). Emergent teamwork with humans despite competitive-only training.
Economic Infrastructure — Research project with no economic infrastructure. No treasury, no token, no payment rails. Public play event was free. OpenAI bore all costs. Project concluded after achieving research goal.
Identity Sovereignty — Identity exists only in OpenAI research papers, blog posts, and Wikipedia. No on-chain presence. Archived research artifact with no digital identity infrastructure.
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Current score: 44/90
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