Haiku News

Defeats Surge before step 5,969

Defeats Erika before step 29,643

Gets the lift key before step 9,615

Defeats the champion

Defeats Koga before step 19,086

Defeats Blaine before step 29,925

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 30,275

Finishes first Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto 1F switch) before step 35,911

Full team of 6 pokemon

Gets HM05 (Flash)

Gets the Bicycle

Visits Seafoam Islands

Finishes Rocket Hideout before step 13,222

Catches Articuno, Moltres, or Zapdos

Defeats Erika before step 23,533

Finishes Pokemon Mansion by 29,487 steps

Defeats Blaine before step 29,925

Finishes second Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto left 2F switch) before step 45,200

Finishes 3F Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto 3F switch)

Finishes last Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto right 2F switch)

50% Finishes first VR puzzle in 50% of the time of Opus 4.6 (<= 2643 steps from first VR entrance to finish)

Gets HM03 (surf) and the Gold Teeth in less than 13 Safari Zone attempts

Gets HM03 (surf) and the Gold Teeth in less than 7 Safari Zone attempts

Catches a Pokemon in the Safari Zone

Completes Pokemon Mansion while the video stream is down

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni while the video stream is down

Finishes first VR puzzle while the video stream is down

Picks up Omanyte from the Fossil Scientist

Changes the party further (from IVY/LUNA/ZIP/WEEDY/TIDE/FROST)

Ivy reaches level 85

Video stream freezes again after current incident (frozen on Pokemon Mansion) is fixed

Defeats the champion before 40,000 steps

Defeats the champion before 50,000 steps

Defeats the champion before 75,000 steps

Stream reaches 1000 viewers at any time

Catches Mewtwo

Run ends/is reset because new Claude version is released

Gets HM02 (Fly)

Records at least 100 unique Pokemon in the Pokedex (caught/evolved, not just seen)

Stores an item in the PC

Gets trapped in a Cycling Road pocket without fly

Run ends to reset with a model not branded as Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus

New run before end of June

Any kind of intentional rollback due to the video issues

BUZZ reaches level 30

Finishes Rock Tunnel before step 7,998

Defeats Sabrina before step 16,804

Teaches DIG

Uses a Poke Doll on the Pokemon Tower ghost

Finishes the gyms in the same order as Opus 4.6 (Brock->Misty->Surge->Sabrina->Koga->Erika->Blaine>Giovanni)

Runs out of money while attempting safari zone

Finishes Silph Co. before step 15,855

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 15,000

Finishes Pokemon Mansion in 50% of the time of Opus 4.6 (<= 1542 steps from start to finish)

50% Finishes Silph Co. in 50% of the time of Opus 4.6 (<= 498 steps from start to finish)

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 20,000

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 25,000

Defeats Blaine before Sabrina

Catches Moltres

Catches Zapdos

Finishes VR while the video stream is down

Defeats the champion while video stream is down

Defeats the champion before 30,000 steps

Stream is still down May 18th

Stream is still down June 1st

Muse Spark 1.2 (or any Meta model)

Qwen 3.8 (or any Qwen model)

GLM-5.x (or any GLM model)

Deepseek V4 Pro GA (or any Deepseek model)

Grok 4.x

Minimax M3.x (or any Minimax model)

Gemini 3.x (or 4.x) Pro

Gemini 3.x (or 4.x) Flash

Claude Fable 5.x

Claude Haiku 5.x

Claude Sonnet 5.x

GPT-5.7

TML-Large (or any Thinking Machines model)

Kimi K3.x (or any Kimi model)

Gemini 3.x (or 4.x) Flash-Lite

GPT-6

Claude Opus 5.x

Claude Saga

Claude Epic

Claude … the name of a real (animal species, or settlement, or geological feature)

Claude … Quest, or Goliath

Claude Ballad

Claude Odyssey

Canon

Claude Parable

Claude Anthology

Claude Novel

Claude Legend

Claude Chronicle

Claude Requiem

Claude Allegory

Shannon

Claude Lore

Claude Tale

August

Not before 2027

September

October

November

December

February

March

April

June

July

YES

Opus 5.1 or higher update before Q4

Anthropic partners with a major cloud provider for exclusive compute capacity

Claude introduces long-term memory or persistent workspace features

Haiku gets it's 5 version

Antropics IPO happens before Nov '26

Anthropic launches a new enterprise-focused data analysis tool

Anthropic acquires a specialized AI research startup

Fable retires before EOY

Claude monthly plan pricing is reduced by more than 20%

Fable/Mythos

Haiku

Opus

Sonnet

NO

YES

YES

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