Background: With the release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic promoted a new benchmark: beating Pokémon. Now, Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro has substantially surpassed Claude's progress on that benchmark.

TL:DR: We don't know if Gemini is better at Pokémon than Claude because their playthroughs can't be directly compared.

The Metrics

Here are Anthropic's and Google's charts:

[1]Unfortunately these are using different x and y axes, but it's roughly accurate to say that Gemini has made it nearly twice as far in the game[2] now:

And moreover, Gemini has gotten there using approximately 1/3rd the effort! As of writing, Gemini's current run is at ~68,000 actions, while Claude's current run is at ~215,000 actions.[3][4]

So, sounds definitive, right? Gemini blows Claude out of the water.

The Agents' Harnesses

Well, when Logan Kilpatrick (product lead for Google's AI studio) posted his tweet, he gave an important caveat:

"next best model only [...]

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Outline:

(01:13) The Metrics

(02:19) The Agents Harnesses

(05:13) The Agents Masters

(07:46) The Agents Vibes

(11:27) Conclusion

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