$8,000 AI Ataraxos beats Stratego's greatest player, a bastion DeepMind failed to crack
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-01
Ataraxos, built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT for under $8,000, has decisively beaten the best Stratego player of all time — one of the last human strongholds in board games. Stratego is a hard test for AI due to hidden information; Google DeepMind fell short in 2023 despite a multimillion-dollar budget.
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