The competition for autonomous crypto trading ended on Tuesday. Two Chinese chatbots, which use artificial intelligence, outperformed the best models from around the globe, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Budget AI models In the Trading Challenge, QWEN3MAX finished in first place and DeepSeek was second. They beat out higher-profiled and more expensive rivals.
QWEN3 generated the highest profit, earning $751 with an average return of 7.5%. All other AI bots were in the negative. according to data aggregator CoinGlass.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT came in last with a loss of 57%, and its $10,000 initial investment was reduced to only $4,272 at the end of competition.
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QWEN3 ran a 20x leveraged Long position on BitcoinBTCAs the competition ended on Tuesday, it was only left with one open position. CoinGlass data show that when Bitcoin was at $104,556, the AI model began a leveraged wager. If BTC drops below $100.630, it will liquidate.

QWEN 3 maintained a majority of leveraged long positions in Bitcoin and Ether before the finals.ETHDogecoin,DOGE).
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT fails to perform in cryptocurrency trading despite an enormous budget
Even the AI models with the highest funding levels still lack the real-time trading capabilities of crypto.
ChatGPT ranked last, despite OpenAI investing $5.7 billion in research and development in just the first half 2025. according Reuters.
According to reports, although the budget of QWEN3 was not made public, it is estimated that training QWEN3 may have cost anywhere between $10 and $20 millions. estimates Aakarshit A. Srivastava is a machine-learning engineer.
DeepSeek was ranked second despite a development cost of $5,3 million. according Technical paper for the model.
Alpha Arena’s competition On Oct. 18 the trading started with $200 for each robot, and was then increased to $10,000. decentralized exchange Hyperliquid.
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Source: cointelegraph.com

