> Now, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University has done it. Their AI, called Ataraxos, beat Pim Niemeijer, arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 games to one, with four draws. And it took just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars to train it.

Just 16 GPUs, and a few thousand dollars?

What about “researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University” this wasn’t just anyone.

That's a bit out of context, no? The preceding sentence is > Even DeepMind, with its exceptional budget, couldn’t build a machine that reliably beat the best human players.

so the contrast here is the budget available, not the quality of the talent, if we accept the premise that DeepMind and the universities have approximately similar level of talent.