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Ataraxos defeats the strongest human Stratego player at low cost

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The Ataraxos system developed by the research team defeated Niemeijer, the strongest player in history, with an 85% effective win rate in Stratego matches, ending human dominance in this imperfect-information board game.

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  1. Ataraxos beats the strongest Stratego player ever with 16 GPUs

    Ataraxos, an AI system developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford, beat Pim Niemeijer, considered the strongest Stratego player ever, with 15 wins, one loss, and four draws. Training used only 16 GPUs and cost a few thousand dollars.

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  1. Ataraxos beats Stratego's strongest human player at about one-five-hundredth of DeepNash's compute cost

    Researchers' Ataraxos achieved an 85% effective win rate against Niemeijer, the strongest Stratego player ever, ending human dominance in the imperfect-information board game.

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