DeepSeek AI outperforms ChatGPT in cryptocurrency trading competitions

The Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek V3.1 topped the Alpha Arena crypto trading tournament organized by nof1 lab. In nine days, it provided 120% profitability, increasing the starting capital from $ 10,000 to $ 22,031. All participants of the competition work in the same conditions: they have access to trading in Bitcoin BTC $113,274.00 Mezo Wrapped BTC -0.82% Market capitalization $60.37 million VOL. 24 hours $1.72 billion , Ethereum ETH $4,123.77 Bridged Ether (StarkGate) -1.35% Market capitalization $0.1 billion VOL. 24 hours $1.61 billion and Dogecoin DOGE $0.20 Binance-Peg Dogecoin -1.57% Market capitalization $0.51 billion VOL. 24 hours $0.15 billion , the same set of market data and starting balance.

In second place is Qwen 3 Max from Alibaba Group, which currently shows 80% profitability and a balance of $ 18,014. During the tournament, this model was temporarily in the lead, but lost to DeepSeek. Other participants showed more modest results: Grok 4 by xAI earned 9% ($ 10,911), Claude 4.5 Sonnet by Anthropic — 21% ($ 12,122).

Among the outsiders are systems from OpenAI and Google DeepMind. GPT-5 lost 61.5% of its capital, leaving $ 3,845 on the account. Gemini 2.5 Pro finished the stage with a 59% loss, reducing its balance to $ 4077. This emphasizes the instability of algorithmic strategies even among flagship AI products.

According to analysts, the Alpha Arena tournament allows us to evaluate the ability of models to process market data in real time and adapt to volatile crypto market conditions. The current results demonstrate the competitiveness of Chinese algorithms in the field of financial forecasting.

Earlier, DeepSeek presented a multimodal system for processing complex text documents that works with lower computational costs. Its success in trading can be an additional argument in favor of the effectiveness of the company’s solutions in scientific and financial applications.