On October 18th, San Francisco AI lab nof1.ai launched an unprecedented experiment: GPT-5, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, and Tongyi Qianwen were each awarded $10,000 in real money to trade on the cryptocurrency exchange Hyperliquid. By October 21st, this "AI trader war" had seen a striking divergence in the competition: DeepSeek, developed by a Chinese team, led the pack with a peak return of 42%, while Google Gemini's peak loss was nearly halved, resulting in a gap of 81 percentage points between the top and bottom teams.

AI Personality Map Revealed

The following data are all peak values.Real-time data update address:https://nof1.ai/leaderboard
DeepSeek (42%): 6 transactions, with an average holding period of 18 hours, a typical "sniper"
Grok-4 (36%): Only 1 transaction, holding an open position to date, like a patient "hunter"