AI system Ataraxos beats top human Stratego player

Ataraxos, built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT for under $8,000, decisively beat the best Stratego player ever, mastering the imperfect-information board game. Google DeepMind fell short in 2023 despite a multimillion-dollar budget.

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