We have a long history of using games to measure progress in AI. 🎮 That’s why we’re helping unveil the @Kaggle Game Arena: an open-source platform where models go head-to-head in complex games to help us gauge their capabilities. 🧵

Games can serve as excellent testbeds for measuring a broad range of capabilities that we often interpret as intelligence. 🕹️ To win, a model needs transferable skills like world knowledge, reasoning, and adapting strategy to an opponent's moves. ↓

We'll kick things off with a chess exhibition tournament including some of the world's frontier general purpose models. ♟️ Many still have trouble with visual representations of a chessboard so we’ll start with a text-based version. Over time, new games, models, and agentic setups will be introduced. →