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An AI competition called StarSkirmish pitted AI-made StarCraft bots against human-made ones. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 tied as the best AI-made bots but could not beat Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot.
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“StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots.”
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