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Anthropic’s Claude Plays Pokémon!

February 2025 (Updated June 2026)

This isn’t just child’s play. While being very cool, the significance is that Claude is using reasoning plus some computer vision and some other tooling to play a game *Claude has not been trained on*. This. Is. Huge.

Instead of a game, think of the other ways — AI agents, workflows, apps — where we can harness reasoning to help us perform a series of ongoing actions.

Watch the real-time gameplay and Claude’s reasoning in action here → twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

Claude Plays Pokémon Updates

June 2026 - YouTube, Claude Fable 5 beats Pokémon FireRed only using vision

June 2026 - GamesHub, Claude Fable 5 beats Pokemon FireRed and can sometimes make it to level 3 in Slay the Spire

November 2025 - Guess what? Claude got an upgrade. Now you can watch Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4.5 playing Pokémon

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