Google’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)

Google’s”s The most expensive AI model The main stage passed: beat a video game of 29 years old.

Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai x in x in x“What’s over! Gemini 2.5 Pro only completed Pokémon Blue!”

To be clear, Gemini Pokemon plays Livestream (in own words) “created by Google’s 30-year-old software engineer Joel Z. However, Google leaders welcomed the efforts.

For example, Logan Kilpatrick, Product device for Google EU Studio, Sent last month He gained a great progress in filling the pokemon and won the 5th Badge (the next best model has up to 3 days, “with a different agent trailer),” Leading Pichai joke“We are working on API, artificial Pokemon intelligence :)”

Why Pokémon? Back in February Anthropic highlighted progress Kloday AI models “Pokémon Red” give “Pokémon Red”, “a great push”, “a great boost”, “a great boost” gives a “big boost” as a “bigger” tasks. (“Pokémon RED” and “Blue” are different versions a game title Originally released in 1996 and closed with a long-lasting Pokemon franchise). Even there is Play Pokemon Twitch channel from a clay He referred to Joel Z as an inspiration.

Despite the progress, Claude does not appear to be “Pokémon Red”. Does this mean that the Gemini is objectively in the game? In Joel Z, Joel Z, “Please do not consider this criterion how an LLM can play well how to play Pokemon. You can’t really compare directly – Gemini and Claude can get different tools and different information. “

Both AI models need help to play the game – that’s The above mentioned agent trailer Presenting models with game screenshots covered with additional information, allowing you to decide how to respond to the model (able to attract special agents) and then pressing the button to the instructions of the EU.

Joel Z acknowledged that Gemini had other “Dev interventions” to help complete the game, but insisted that he did not deceive.

“My interventions increase the total decision-making and thinking capacity of the twins,” says. “I do not give specific instructions.

Moreover, he said: “Gemini Pokémon is still being actively developed and the framework continues to develop.”