## 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…
## 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.