Claude’s Major Feat

“For Anthropic, meanwhile, this is a major feat. You may recall last spring Claude couldn’t even beat Pokémon Red. In less than a year, the company’s models have gone from struggling to navigate a simple 8-bit Game Boy game to successfully plotting a course for a rover on a distant planet. NASA is excited about the possibility of future collaborations, saying”autonomous AI systems could help probes explore ever more distant parts of the solar system.””

— Engadget, 01/30/2026