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Google's AI Achieves a Gaming Feat: Completing Pokémon Blue

Google's most advanced and costly AI model has apparently achieved a significant accomplishment: conquering a classic video game.
Last night, Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, shared his excitement on X, announcing that Gemini 2.5 Pro had successfully finished Pokémon Blue.

The Story Behind the Achievement

While the livestream of Gemini playing Pokémon was created by a software engineer, Joel Z, who isn't affiliated with Google, Google executives have been keenly following the progress.

• Logan Kilpatrick, Google AI Studio's product lead, previously shared that Gemini was making impressive strides in Pokémon, even earning its fifth badge.
• This prompted Pichai to jokingly reference "Artificial Pokémon Intelligence" in response.

Why Pokémon?

The focus on Pokémon stems from the competition in the AI landscape. Anthropic had previously highlighted the accomplishments of its Claude AI models in "Pokémon Red."

This highlighted the use of "extended thinking and agent training" to improve performance.