Almost 10 years ago, the online phenomenon “Twitch Plays Pokémon” convened over a million people to play Pokémon Red at the same time, with each player’s keystrokes registering as commands for the one ...

Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model. Yes, really. In a blog post published Monday, Anthropic said that it tested its latest model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, on the Game Boy classic ...

Anthropic's AI agent Claude is trying to beat Pokémon Red. Apparently, it's no Ash Ketchum. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Last month, the $61.5 billion-valuated AI startup Anthropic set up a gaming ...

TL;DR: OpenAI's ChatGPT-5 set a new record for a Pokémon Red speed run by an AI, completing the game in 6,470 steps, which is three times faster than GPT-o3. That's a huge leap and it's apparently ...