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

Google The most expensive AI model Looks like a big milestone has exceeded: a 29 year old video game is hitting.

Google’s CEO last night is beautiful Pichai Posted the winner at X“What’s the end! Gemini 2.5 Pro barely completed the Pokémon Blue!”

To be clean, the Gemini Pokémon Play Livestream (In his own words) was created by “Unfilted with Google 30 years old software engineer” who goes Joel ZThe However, Google Executives are trying.

For example, Logan Kilpatric, Google Leads Products for AI Studios, Posted last month That Jemi was “making great progress to finish Pokémon” and “its 5th badge (the next best model has only 3, though it is now 3, though with a different agent Jota),” leading the leadership of Pichai Joke“We’re working on API, Artificial Pokémon Intelligence :)”

Why Pokémon? Back to February, The progress of ethnographic highlights The Cloud AI models that were producing on “Pokémon Red” wrote that the “extended thinking and agent training” of the cloud gives it a great enthusiasm in “more unexpected” tasks like playing classic games. (Different versions of “Pokémon Red” and “Blue” A gameboy title First published in 1996 and tied to the long -running Pokémon Franchise). There are even A clad Pokémon plays the Twitch Channel That Joel Z has referred to as an inspiration.

Despite its progress, Claud still doesn’t seem to have defeated “Pokémon Red”. Does that mean that the Gemi game is intentionally better in the game? On his Twitch page, Joel Z. The visitors requested the visitors, “Please do not consider it as a criterion for any LLM Pokémon you can really compare it directly – Jemi and Clock have different tools and get different information.”

And both AI Model Games need help to play – that’s where Gives the aforementioned agent harness Let’s, with the screenshots of the game, supplies models with additional information, how the model can respond (which may involve specialized agents) and then press the associated button to the AI’s instruction.

Joel Jade admitted that there was other “god intervention” to help Mithuni complete the game, but emphasized that it was not cheating.

“My intervention improves the overall decision of Gemini and the skill of logic,” he said. “I am not giving specific hints – there is no Wakthu or direct direction for special challenges like Mount Moon. The only thing that comes very close is to tell Jemie that it needs to talk to the rocket grant twice to get the lift key, which was later fixed in Pokémon yellow.”

Also, he said, “Gemi drama Pokémon is still actively developing, and the structure is about to develop.”