Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Pro seems to be the latest center of attention in the AI world. It’s managed to beat the original classic Pokémon Blue for crying out loud! Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, personally recognized this historic accomplishment and took to X to spread the joyful news. His announcement created huge excitement among the tech community. Finishing Pokémon Blue is an important achievement for Gemini. This accomplishment represents Gemini’s continued development and refinement towards strong gaming abilities.
Joel Z, a 30-year-old software engineer unaffiliated with Google, created the “Gemini Plays Pokemon” livestream, which has served as a platform for showcasing Gemini’s gaming prowess. While the livestream is admittedly a work in progress, Joel Z strongly encourages viewers to use it responsibly. He emphasizes that this should not act as an ultimate standard for a language model’s (LLM) Pokémon playing skills. Rather, it’s just one performance metric besides others.
Gemini recently received its fifth badge in the game! It’s even managed to outperform other large AI models such as Claude AI, which has been making notable strides on Pokémon Red. Logan Kilpatrick, the former product lead for Google AI Studio, heralded the progress of Gemini with the following declaration.
“earned its 5th badge (next best model only has 3 so far, though with a different agent harness).”
The structure for “Gemini Plays Pokemon” was a work in progress. Joel Z further describes how his interventions improve the quality of Gemini’s decision-making and reasoning abilities. He warns that one-to-one comparisons between Gemini and other AI models such as Claude should be avoided.
“Please don’t consider this a benchmark for how well an LLM can play Pokemon. You can’t really make direct comparisons — Gemini and Claude have different tools and receive different information,” said Joel Z.
Sundar Pichai added a light-hearted commentary on the advancements in AI, joking about their efforts in developing “Artificial Pokémon Intelligence.” The playful aside cuts to the core of the competitive race now underway among AI developers for who can go further in gaming and decision making capabilities.
Now four months old, Gemini has achieved notable progress. At the same time, Claude AI models have likewise sharpened their proficiency at playing Pokémon Red, drawing on advanced thinking skills and agent training to tackle obscure tasks in surprising ways. A Twitch channel focused on Claude’s gaming endeavors has attracted a huge following. It draws attention to the thrilling competition between AI models pushing the envelope in the gaming sphere.
With both Gemini and Claude charting their own paths in Pokémon games, the world of AI-enhanced gaming is constantly changing. All of these developments are prime examples of how far artificial intelligence has come. They further explain an exciting new trend of bringing that technology together with popular culture.
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