Frontier AI models lose money on soccer betting, study shows

Key Points

• Study evaluated 9 leading AI models on a full soccer season betting task.
• All models started with a £100,000 bankroll and ended with losses.
• Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 lost the least, ending with £89,035.
• Google Gemini 3.1 Pro and Flash 3.1 LP experienced total losses in worst cases.
• xAI Grok 4.20 and Acree Trinity lost their entire bankrolls.
• Authors claim current AI benchmarks miss real‑world, long‑term challenges.
• Ross Taylor, General Reasoning CEO, warned against over‑hype of AI automation.