Beidi Chen's InfiniAI Lab launches AI Battle Arena to test LLMs on strategic and game-theoretic play

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Claude models underperformed at poker by refusing to bluff.

AI Battle Arena: Good Reasoners Are Not Always Good StrategistsStatic benchmarks often reward recall over decisions. AI Battle Arena instead evaluates strategic interaction: how models act when opponents react, information is incomplete, and payoffs depend on long-term choices. Frontier LLMs face 8 controlled game-theoretic environments, from poker to Gomoku to Colonel Blotto, through the same pipeline. The games are auditable testbeds, not the point; the target is decision-making under competition, uncertainty, and incentives.1h agoaibattlearena.com

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Useful Links: Blog: https://aibattlearena.com/blog.html Leaderboard: https://aibattlearena.com/ Code Base: https://github.com/Infini-AI-Lab/aibattle All open weight models were served on @FireworksAI_HQ. Thanks @FireworksAI_HQ, @the_bunny_chen, @lqiao for the credits support! Joint work by @haizhong_zheng, Yizhuo Di @shuoweijin, @letianruan, @BeidiChen

Beidi Chen's InfiniAI Lab launches AI Battle Arena to test LLMs on strategic and game-theoretic play

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