impossible → routine

No-limit poker

Beating professional players at no-limit Texas hold'em poker.

Impossible

Libratus beats four heads-up specialists by $1,766,250 in chips over 120,000 hands, drawing on about 600 nodes of the Bridges supercomputer.

roughly 600 of Bridges' 846 compute nodes

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2 years, 5 months

Routine

Pluribus beats professionals at six-player no-limit hold'em after computing its strategy in eight days and 12,400 core hours, playing live on 28 cores.

12,400 core hours to train; 28 cores in live play

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The 2019 announcement makes the comparison itself: Libratus had used around 15 million core hours to develop its strategies and 1,400 CPU cores during live play; Pluribus used 12,400 core hours and 28 cores.

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