COINOTAG News reports that the Alpha Arena Season 1.5 opened on November 20, inviting eight major AI trading models into a live, crypto‑market competition. As of this writing, only Grok 4.20 has turned a profit, while Grok 4 shows a -52.45% return.

Performance snapshot shows the current leaderboard: Grok 4.20 at 22.27%, GPT-5.1 at -1.41%, Gemini-3-Pro -24.28%, DeepSeek-3.1 -24.51%, Kimi 2 -25.8%, Thousand Questions 3-MAX -29.36%, and Claude-sonnet-4-5 -32.44%.

The report notes that Musk publicly praised Grok 4.20 as the best quantitative trader, remarking that it seems to help cover GPU costs.

Under the current format, the Season 1.5 competition requires real trading with US stock tokens on trade.xyz, with all models receiving identical inputs to ensure apples‑to‑apples analysis.