Anthropic’s Claude Plays Pokemon

Y Combinator Pulls Controversial AI

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Altiam Kabir
February 26, 2025

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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Anthropic’s Claude plays Pokémon live; Y Combinator retracts AI demo; Apptronik advances robot self-construction.

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  • Top AI & Tech News

  • Interesting Uses of AI: Prompting Grok 3 - How AI Built Jumping Game

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Hottest AI News

Anthropic

Anthropic Lets Claude Play Pokémon Live on Twitch

Anthropic has launched an intriguing experiment on Twitch: their latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, is playing Pokémon Red live, offering viewers a unique glimpse into artificial intelligence tackling a beloved gaming classic.

Details:

  • Claude 3.7 Sonnet outperforms its predecessor, earning three gym badges while the previous version couldn't leave the house. However, it still struggles with obstacles and NPCs

  • The stream’s split-screen format shows both Claude’s reasoning and gameplay, attracting thousands despite its slow pace

  • This experiment echoes past AI gaming tests, like Peter Whidden’s 50,000-hour training, and contrasts with Twitch Plays Pokémon, where millions played together

This AI-powered playthrough highlights the shift from human collaboration to AI-driven entertainment, redefining digital experiences and community engagement.

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YC

Y Combinator Deletes AI Demo After Backlash

Y Combinator sparked controversy after posting and deleting a demo of Optifye, a startup using AI for factory worker surveillance, raising ethical concerns.

Details:

  • Optifye's demo featured a supervisor reprimanding "Worker 17" for 11.4% efficiency, using AI cameras to monitor performance. Social media criticized the exchange over alleged underperformance

  • Critics called it "sweatshops-as-a-service," while defenders like Intercom's CEO noted similar practices in China, such as "sleep detection" cameras

  • Despite public opposition to workplace AI surveillance (per a 2023 Pew poll), VC funding persists, with firms like Invisible AI raising $15M in 2022

The incident underscores tensions between AI monitoring and worker privacy. Y Combinator and Optifye have not commented.

Apptronik

Apptronik Robots Make Progress Toward Self Construction

Apptronik, the Austin-based humanoid robotics company, has taken a significant step toward creating a future where robots could build themselves through a new partnership with manufacturing giant Jabil.

Details:

  • Apptronik, fresh from a $350M Series A, is forming partnerships, including pilots with Mercedes-Benz and Jabil, where Apollo robots will handle basic tasks

  • The Jabil collaboration could lead to Apollo robots being manufactured by Jabil, potentially enabling self-replication by 2026

  • With a decade of experience, including NASA's Valkyrie and Google DeepMind, Apptronik competes with Agility, Boston Dynamics, Figure, and Tesla in humanoid robotics

Apptronik’s advancements highlight the growing shift toward practical, commercial use of humanoid robots in manufacturing.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • NoCode-X (Life-time Deal): Create highly secure, full-stack web applications without code, offering premium security, data encryption, and AI-assisted app development

  • Wan 2.1: Open-source video model from Alibaba that turns text into videos, often praised as better than OpenAI's Sora [F-R-E-E]

  • Code Assist: Google's AI coder helps you write with intelligent completions and review suggestions in your IDE [F-R-E-E]

  • Basalt: Build and manage AI features, create prompts with AI Copilot, test LLM outputs, and deploy with SDK [F-R-E-E]

  • OpenArt: Create consistent character images from one description or image, and pose, place, and combine them in any scene [F-R-E-E]

Top AI & Tech News

  • OpenAI introduced 10 Deep Research queries per month for all Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users and launched the System Card for Deep Research

  • Anthropic is reportedly raising $3.5B at a $61.5B valuation, shortly after releasing Sonnet 3.7

  • DeepSeek is accelerating the release of its next AI model, moving it up from May to leverage the momentum following R1's success

  • OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini-powered Advanced Voice for F-R-E-E ChatGPT users

  • Lovable, a “Vibe-coding” app, raised $15M with $17M ARR and 500K users creating 25K products daily

Interesting Uses of AI

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney

Prompt:

A portrait of a very angry female cat with open eyes, wearing a completely white kimono, in the style of vintage-inspired pin-ups, with an art deco print, white background --stylize 750 --v 6.1

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