Training VLMs to use vision-only inputs to play games is not just limited to Anthropic.

Training VLMs to use vision-only inputs to play games is not just limited to Anthropic. We showed this was possible using Qwen3-VL-Instruct-8b prior to Fable 5 beating pokemon firered. It is great to see a scaled up version in the latest
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