- Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro has officially completed Pokémon Blue
- The game went as a lively experiment by an independent engineer
- Mithun played the game with some mild developer intervention, but mostly on his own
Google’s Mithun AI has not yet passed the Turing Test, but it will be very popular in the school yard three decades ago after winning Pokémon Blue’s game. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now both the most advanced AI model of Google and a Pokémon Master, as displayed in a Twitch Livestream, called “Gemini Plays Pokémon”, run by an engineer unfolded with Google.
What is the end! Gemini 2.5 Pro has just completed Pokémon Blue! Special thanks to @Thecodeofjoel to create and run Livivestream, and for all those who please Mani on the way. pic.twitter.com/e2pn3tpfebMay 3, 2025
You may be surprised as to why an AI model defeated the game of thirty years, attracted so much attention. This is partly due to spectacle, but the AI model is also due to rivalry. Back in February, Anthropic demonstrated progress, which was progressing her cloud model by defeating Pokémon Red. He used the game to show Cloud’s “extended thinking and agent training” and inspired a “Cloud Play Pokémon” Twich Stream, Joel Z.
Mithun was crowned as a true Aish Ash Kitchm, it is worth noting some caves. For one, Claude has not technically defeated Pokémon Red yet, but it does not automatically make Gemini better, as they employ various devices, known as “agents Harness”. Models do not play directly like humans with a controller. Instead, they are fed screenshots of the game atmosphere with the overlay of major information, then asked to generate the next best action. That decision has then been translated into a real button press in the game.
And Mithun is not going alone completely. Joel admitted that he stepped to improve sometimes, although he has only created a point of doing so to improve some of Mithun’s arguments. He continued to work on the Pokémon project to improve even more.
Pokémon AI
What is more than a bizarre internet stunt, it means where AI is. Playing a game like Pokémon Blue is not about remembering rapid reflexis or controller input. It is about long -term strategy, suited to surprise, and navigate vague challenges. These are all areas where AI usually requires improvement. This Gemini can not only catch its own, but can also eliminate the game (with minimal nudity) suggests that as models are getting better in the extended strategy.
It is also a kind of milestone that an average person can understand. You can easily understand what AI is doing when the lavender is incorrectly connecting the bumbling or a fight strategy through the Town, and compare with the options you made in that context. Of course, you should not mean what it means. AI can now end a game that you probably beat in middle school, but also reveals how much human effort is still in AI to look autonomous.
Whether or not the clouds or Gemini become true, Pokymasters do not matter so much of what they are playing for the development of AI. Showing that AI will not just crunch numbers or spam emails, how people can think what AI can do, even with help. And if this is how AI models begin to learn how to work in an unpredictable, open-ended environment, then, well, beating the Mewtavo can be a step stone to do something more darker. Or at least, slightly more productive.
