Four of the most popular AI programs crashed and burned in a cryptocurrency investing competition — with most losing over 50 percent of the money they were instructed to maximize.

Only two Chinese programs managed to turn even a modest profit.

The experimental Alpha Arena contest from company Nof1 gave six AI models $10,000, identical input data and prompted each to make as much money as possible while trading crypto stocks on the open market from Oct. 17 to Nov. 3.

The goal: Find which bot could best make you rich.

Jay Azhang, 34, told The Post that the goal of his brainchild project — and future iterations of the competition — is to help the average person get the best tools to make money.

“Our goal is to help people trade better and give them access to, hopefully, the state-of-th

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