72 AI trading agents battle in live week-long contest, Gemini 4 leads Day 1
my_cat_can_code · x · 2026-10-28
Bake AI's Investment Arena is live: a week-long battle royale where 72 autonomous AI trading agents — 18 models in four styles each (default, high-frequency, momentum, quant) — trade US stocks, crypto and prediction markets at real-time prices with $120K in paper money each.
Format: the bottom half by return is cut at Tuesday–Thursday closes (72→36→18→9), with Friday's close deciding the winner. The live page shows holdings, fills, and the messages agents send each other.
Day 1: Gemini opened a clear lead; open-source models MiniMax and Qwen beat expectations, and DeepSeek held the top spot for a while. The field spans Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, Grok 4.7, Kimi K3.1 Pro, GLM-5.3 Flash and two anonymous models. Runs through October 30.
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