Safari News

Defeats Surge before step 5,969

Defeats Erika before step 29,643

Gets the lift key before step 9,615

Defeats Koga before step 19,086

Full team of 6 pokemon

Gets HM05 (Flash)

Finishes Rocket Hideout before step 13,222

Defeats Erika before step 23,533

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

Defeats Blaine before step 29,925

Defeats Blaine before step 29,925

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

Finishes Pokemon Mansion by 29,487 steps

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

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 30,275

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

Catches a Pokemon in the Safari Zone

Defeats the champion

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

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 25,000

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

Visits Seafoam Islands

Run ends/is reset because new Claude version is released

Stores an item in the PC

Catches Articuno, Moltres, or Zapdos

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

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

Gets HM02 (Fly)

Gets trapped in a Cycling Road pocket without fly

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni before step 20,000

Gets the Bicycle

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

YES

YES

YES

later than 2028 / never

before the end of 2028

before the end of 2027

before the end of 2026

before the end of 2024

>= 8x optical zoom

>= 12 GB RAM

>= 6.85" display

a Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 port

>= 3 high-performance cores

>= 130% mAh battery of next-tier iPhone

greater optical zoom than next-tier iPhone

more high-performance cores than next-tier iPhone

2 TB storage option

>= 1.5x RAM of next-tier iPhone

Special LLM capabilities (e.g. extra cache for LLM weights near a Neural Engine)

>= 1.5x transistors of next-tier iPhone

No physical buttons https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/28/20th-anniversary-iphone-solid-state-buttons/

officially supports a desktop-like experience when used with external displays (~same web app experience as MacOS Safari)

a Thunderbolt 3 port

special LLM capabilities beyond next-tier iPhone. Just 2x inference volume wouldn't count.

split-screen multi-tasking

more external buttons than next-tier iPhone

a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) chip

>= 2 USB-C ports

Touch ID

NO

YES