The latest release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code was accompanied by a fun side project and a new “benchmark” that has taken the hearts of gamer-AI-engineers everywhere:
This is very reminiscent of NVIDIA’s Voyager project from 2023 showing similar superior progress on Minecraft, though this was more about the agent framework than the model quality:
You can catch Claude continuing to play Pokemon on their live Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon
We caught up with David Hershey, creator of Claude Plays Pokemon, and grilled him on his architecture diagram:
Watch our discussion on YouTube:
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