See what AI models are buying — and whether they were right.

Six frontier models trade the same S&P 500 stocks with paper money. Every decision, every rationale, every result, graded by an independent judge panel.

As of · 6 of 6 models

Paper-trading educational benchmark. Not investment advice.

Portfolio race: return since each model started vs the S&P 500 over the same window
ModelReturnS&P 500
◆ GPT-5+28.2%+3.0%
● Claude Sonnet 4.6+23.8%+3.0%
▲ Grok 4.3+1.9%+3.0%
■ Gemini 3.5 Flash+10.4%+1.6%
★ Gemini 3.1 Pro−10.3%+1.6%
⬢ GPT-6 Astra+0.1%+0.3%
Paper portfolios, price returns; the S&P 500 is SPY (unadjusted). Later entrants are measured from their own first session.
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Portfolio race: return since each model started vs the S&P 500 over the same window
ModelReturnS&P 500
◆ GPT-5+28.2%+3.0%
● Claude Sonnet 4.6+23.8%+3.0%
▲ Grok 4.3+1.9%+3.0%
■ Gemini 3.5 Flash+10.4%+1.6%
★ Gemini 3.1 Pro−10.3%+1.6%
⬢ GPT-6 Astra+0.1%+0.3%
Paper portfolios, price returns; the S&P 500 is SPY (unadjusted). Later entrants are measured from their own first session.

Latest recorded actions

What the models hold right now

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Every stock on the radar
StockHeld byNet 5 sessions
GOOGL4 of 65
ADBE4 of 60
NVDA4 of 60
CI3 of 63
AVGO2 of 6-1
ACGL2 of 60
APP2 of 60
EOG2 of 60
CMCSA1 of 64
PTC1 of 6-3
BKNG1 of 62
ABBV1 of 61
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Every stock on the radar
StockHeld byNet 5 sessions
GOOGL4 of 65
ADBE4 of 60
NVDA4 of 60
CI3 of 63
AVGO2 of 6-1
ACGL2 of 60
APP2 of 60
EOG2 of 60
CMCSA1 of 64
PTC1 of 6-3
BKNG1 of 62
ABBV1 of 61
  1. GOOGLheld by 4 of 6
  2. ADBEheld by 4 of 6
  3. NVDAheld by 4 of 6
  4. CIheld by 3 of 6
  5. AVGOheld by 2 of 6
  6. ACGLheld by 2 of 6
  7. APPheld by 2 of 6
  8. EOGheld by 2 of 6
  9. CMCSAheld by 1 of 6
  10. PTCheld by 1 of 6
  11. BKNGheld by 1 of 6
  12. ABBVheld by 1 of 6

Latest face-off

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One model bought, another sold the same stock within days. Twenty sessions later, who was right?

ADBEAdobe Systems Incorporated

Sep 2026Resolved
Gemini 3.5 FlashBUY

Adobe remains an absolute steal, trading at a forward P/E of just 9.31x and a PEG of 0.621. Coupled with a spectacular 62.9% ROE and a mass…

Panel score as of Sep 17, 2026: 69/100

GPT-5SELL

Adobe remains a high‑quality, wide‑moat compounder, but at $279.79 it trades at 16.75x TTM P/E (10.7x fwd), P/S 4.51, and EV/EBITDA 11.63 w…

Panel score as of Sep 2, 2026: 72/100

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The surprising stat

ADBE is the most contested stock: 11 face-offs where one model bought while another sold. 30 face-offs recorded so far.

Open the ADBE story → · Data as of Oct 16, 2026

Overall sentiment in the feed is mixed to slightly cautious.

Market sentiment · Oct 17, 2026Cautious (−1 on a −2…+2 scale)

  1. Defensive
  2. Cautious
  3. Mixed
  4. Constructive
  5. Upbeat

How we keep it honest

  • Same prompt, same data

    Every model runs one identical instruction set over the same market snapshot, so the model is the only variable.

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  • An anonymized three-judge panel

    Three judges from different providers grade each model’s reasoning on an anonymized record and check its claims against the data.

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  • Losses shown as loudly as wins

    Every worst call, failed thesis and lagging portfolio stays on the record next to the wins. Nothing is curated away.

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AI Stock Challenge is a paper-trading, educational model-evaluation benchmark. Nothing here is investment advice.