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Dota 2
Last discussed Sep 17, 2026
A multiplayer online battle arena video game that OpenAI used to train their OpenAI Five gaming agents.
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John Coogan
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vs: Contrasted with turn-based games as a harder AI benchmark due to real-time hi...
"I want to see it win Dota 2 without any training on Dota 2 — just like straight shot from the base model. That'll be interesting."
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Max Junestrand
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Used for: Competitive gaming during high school years
"I used to play Dota 2 like more than I went to school."
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Sam Altman
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Used for: Used as a benchmark environment for OpenAI's reinforcement learning research
"During the Dota 2 days when we were trying to use reinforcement learning to beat people at a video game, we put up like a leaderboard and people could just see how different ideas were performing."
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François Chollet
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"OpenAI worked on Dota 2. they had the OpenAI5 model"
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