Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue 👾

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

We've seen Pokémon used before as a fun way to test LLMs' capabilities and adaptability. This time, it was Google's turn to take up the challenge.

Let’s jump right in!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: America’s Most Valuable Company in Each Year (1995-2025) 🚀

• Google's Gemini AI Conquers Pokémon Blue

• Free Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

Chart of the week

America’s Most Valuable Company in Each Year (1995-2025) 🚀

• Once led by industrial giants like General Electric, the market is now dominated by tech firms like Apple and Microsoft, highlighting a shift from manufacturing to digital infrastructure.

• Nvidia briefly surpassed Apple and Microsoft as the most valuable U.S. company twice in 2024 (June and October), but it isn’t featured in the graphic because the data is based on March 31 valuations.

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Google's Gemini AI Conquers Pokémon Blue

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro has managed to complete the classic 1996 video game, Pokémon Blue... with a little help from a dedicated software engineer.

Details:

• The Gemini Plays Pokémon livestream was created by a 30-year-old software engineer unaffiliated with Google, who goes by Joel Z. Still, Google executives followed the project with interest, with CEO Sundar Pichai even acknowledging the achievement on X.

• The software engineer says the effort was inspired by the Claude Plays Pokémon Twitch channel, which aimed to show how Claude’s “extended thinking and agent training” gave it “a major boost” on “more unexpected” tasks like playing a classic game. However, despite its progress, Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon Red.

• While some compare Gemini’s success to Anthropic’s Claude AI, Joel Z clarifies that you cant compare the two, as Gemini and Claude have different tools and receive different information,

• He acknowledged that there were other “dev interventions” to help Gemini complete the game but insisted that it’s not cheating, as they are meant to “improve Gemini’s overall decision-making and reasoning abilities.”

The Gemini Plays Pokémon project is still actively being developed, and the framework continues to evolve. Regardless, this achievement highlights how far AI has come in tackling creative and unexpected challenges.

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Resources

💻 I tried vibe coding: How I created GTA with AI

🔮 Neuromorphic computing: the future of AI

💡 Not everything needs an LLM: A framework for evaluating when AI makes sense

🧠 Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain

👽 AI scientist ‘team’ joins the search for extraterrestrial life

AI Tools to check out

👉 Webdraw: Explore, remix, and build AI apps with 50+ models.

📈 Scrybe: Grow your LinkedIn following in less than 5 minutes a day with AI.

📰 Fellow: Get support before, during, and after every meeting with an AI meeting assistant designed from the ground up with privacy and security in mind.

🌐 Lingo.dev: Translate apps, websites, and entire databases using the best LLM models.

💪 Master of Pushups: Transform your iPhone into an AI-powered push-up trainer.

Video of the week

Mark Zuckerberg – Meta’s AGI Plan

A great interview with Mark Zuckerberg, focusing on Meta's plans for AGI.

They cover a wide range of exciting topics, including the release of new Llama models, his perspective on the competition between open-source and closed-source AI models, the significance of benchmarks, and the importance of healthy relationships with AI, with Meta even planning to create AI friends in the future. 😱

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