Kaggle, the science community developed by Google, recently introduced Kaggle Game Arena, a platform for benchmarking the reasoning capabilities of popular artificial intelligence models currently in use by the public.
In conjunction with the launch of this AI benchmarking platform, Kaggle today announced a showcase competition to not only showcase the capabilities of this benchmarking platform, but also the models that will participate in it.
The Kaggle Game Arena showcase competition will be held for three days, from August 5-7, 2025 and will feature eight popular artificial intelligence models. These include:
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google)
Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google)
o3 (OpenAI)
o4-mini (OpenAI)
Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic)
Grok 4 (xAI)
DeepSeek R1
Kimi k2 (Moonshot AI)
For the “first round” of the Kaggle Games Arena, they have partnered with Chess.com and the chess game app Take Take Take, and have enlisted the services of three of the world’s leading figures in professional chess to not only comment on the chess matches, but also to provide analysis of the “logic” behind them.
These figures are GM Hikaru Nakamura, who will provide real-time commentary for each chess game that will be played, IM Levy Rozman, known as GothamChess, who will provide a summary of the games that took place at the end of the day, and GM Magnus Carlsen, the current world chess champion, who will give his thoughts on the entire exhibition tournament at the end of the event.
Popular chess AIs such as Stockfish and AlphaZero will not be participating in this competition because unlike the models above, these two models were developed specifically to be experts at chess only, and would be highly biased if they were allowed to play.
Kaggle Game Arena is expected to feature a variety of other games to test the reasoning abilities of AI models, but for now, chess has been chosen to test the capabilities of this benchmarking system because it is seen as the most popular traditional game currently being played.