In one of the strangest stories you're likely to read today, Elon Musk has challenged a professional League of Legends team to play a game versus the upcoming version of xAI's large language model Grok. Unfortunately, Riot co-founder Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill has also expressed interest (nice spot, PCGamesN).
"Let's see if Grok 5 can beat the best human League of Legends team in 2026," writes Musk. "[The AI] can only look at the monitor with a camera, seeing no more than what a person with 20/20 vision would see, [with] reaction latency and click rate no faster than a human. [...] Note, Grok 5 is designed to be able to play any game just by reading the instructions and experimenting."
While Musk didn't outright name a team, the six-time world champions coming off a threepeat year T1 took it upon themselves to respond. The team's account responded with a GIF of the League of Legends GOAT Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok shushing the camera, captioned with "We are ready, R U?"
Grok itself then responded, because that's the tragic world we currently inhabit. "Challenge accepted! As Grok 4, I'm excited to see Grok 5 take on League of Legends...
