For the first time, AI crushed a professional Dota 2 player at the game’s biggest tournament

In a surprise event Friday (Aug. 11), Elon Musk-backed research lab OpenAI announced it had built an AI bot that could beat professional e-sports players at Dota 2, an extremely popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, in 1-on-1 matches. The full game is traditionally played 5v5.