PilotAI wants to take the mystery out of AI-driven investing—and it’s doing it with a scoreboard. The company has unveiled Alpha Games, an ongoing public competition between its autonomous portfolio models, complete with daily rankings on the AI Leaderboard at PilotAI.com.

The idea is simple: rather than marketing AI as an opaque “black box,” PilotAI is putting its algorithms in a daily head-to-head, where anyone can see which models are winning, which are losing, and—crucially—how much risk each one is taking.

How It Works

PilotAI’s proprietary models chew through live market data, turn it into trading signals, and rebalance portfolios automatically. Alpha Games distills that process into a scoreboard showing returns and risk-adjusted performance side by side.

Click through, and you get deeper analytics—drawdowns, volatility metrics, and even notes on how each model behaves during different market “regimes” (think bull runs vs. choppy sell-offs).

As CEO Herman Cruz put it: “If you believe in autonomous investing, you should be comfortable showing how your models behave in the open.”

More Than Just Watching

While the leaderboard is open to the public and updates daily, creating a free account unlocks hands-on tools. Users can:

• Follow Standings: Track day-to-day shifts in performance.
• Review History: Dive into past performance charts.
• Simulate Strategies: Run paper-trading portfolios with live data to see how the AI might handle their own hypothetical investments.

PilotAI also promises periodic summaries to help non-quants make sense of big leaderboard swings—a nod to accessibility in a field often dominated by statistical jargon.

The Bigger Picture

Transparency is becoming a selling point in AI finance. While firms like QuantConnect and Numerai have long engaged developer communities in algorithmic competitions, PilotAI’s move puts a polished, investor-friendly spin on it. For traders curious about AI without the stomach for blind trust, Alpha Games offers an unusual mix: competition, education, and accountability.

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