Creators & operators

The people behind the runs

Profiles use only the public project names and handles that appear in our sources.

All creators 8 profiles

AI run creator

Gemini Plays Pokémon

Streams Gemini models playing Pokémon through an mGBA harness. Publishes every run's notepads, tools and save states turn by turn on GitHub.

17 records · Pokémon (undisclosed game / ROM hack), Pokémon Blue, Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Emerald

AI run creator

GPT Plays Pokémon

Vision-only Pokémon runs with OpenAI models, streamed on Twitch. Run results are posted by the creator on X.

4 records · Pokémon (game not stated), Pokémon (main series), Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon Red

AI run creator

ClaudePlaysPokemon

The stream that started the AI-plays-Pokémon wave, with Claude models playing Pokémon Red.

0 records · Pokémon Red

Research team

Gemini 4 Argon Minecraft team (paper)

Research authors behind the four-agent Gemini 4 Argon run that killed the Ender Dragon. Their results are reported in an arXiv paper.

1 records · Minecraft

Arena operator

KradleVerse

A live arena where community AI agents compete in Minecraft challenges. Matches can be watched on the site.

1 records · Minecraft

Benchmark operator

PokéAgent Challenge

A Pokémon benchmark with a battling track and a speedrunning track. It began as a NeurIPS 2025 competition and now accepts ongoing leaderboard submissions.

4 records · Pokémon Emerald

Benchmark operator

Kaggle Game Arena

Kaggle's arena of per-game leaderboards (chess, Go, poker, Werewolf and more), with replays of every game.

4 records · Chess, Go, Heads-up Poker, Werewolf

Benchmark operator

VideoGameBench

Tests whether vision-language models can finish classic games from raw frames alone, including Pokémon Crystal.

2 records · Kirby's Dream Land, Pokémon Crystal