T1 and Faker have accepted Elon Musk’s challenge for the world’s top League of Legends team to face off against his AI, Grok.
Ever since launching Grok, Elon Musk has been pushing it towards game development, hyping up the idea of making his own AI game studio, and believes that AI could make an entire game by itself by 2029.
In the meantime, the world’s richest man has presented an idea to push AI even further by seeing if it can best the top League of Legends team by 2026.
Essentially, he wants to see if Grok can beat T1 and Faker. A modern day version of Deep Blue vs chess champion Garry Kasparov.
Elon Musk wants to see if Grok can beat T1 in LoL
In a challenge posted to X, Elon highlighted how Grok 5 is designed to be able to play any game, and all it has to do is just read the instructions and start experimenting.
“Let’s see if Grok 5 can beat the best human team League Of Legends in 2026 with these important constraints,” he began before noting the terms.
According to Elon, there would be rules in place to give the human team a bit of an advantage by essentially nerfing the AI’s capabilities.
In this game, Grok would only be able to view the screen through a camera feed with standard 20/20 visibility, and its reaction time and clicking speed would be capped at normal human levels.
The challenge immediately went viral and drew plenty of attention from former professional esports players.
Ex-LoL pro Eugene ‘Pobelter’ Park replied, “Would love to help and offer insight as a former League pro, I thought AI vs Dota 2 was really interesting and always wanted to see it vs League.”
Grinding Gears GamesResearcher Oriol Vinyals, who reached GM in StarCraft piqued Elon’s interest by suggesting he play Grok in Blizzard’s iconic RTS. “Bonus points if you get the robots to operate the mouse and keyboard,” he added.
“Sounds good,” Elon replied.
Not everyone was convinced Grok would have a fighting chance, though.
Former pro LoL player Joedat ‘Voyboy’ Esfahani didn’t think Grok would be able to secure a win as early as next year.
“You wouldn’t even be able to beat an LCS team, much less Faker and the boys. League has far too many variables / interaction & game knowledge context / legit team coordination required to win at the highest level,” he argued.
T1, meanwhile, is up for the challenge.
“We are ready,” they replied to Musk’s post with a GIF of Faker. “Are you?”
