NitroGen AI Revolution: How YouTube Gameplay Taught AI to Master 1,000+ Games Without Code Access

NitroGen: The First Open Foundation Model That Teaches AI to Play 1,000+ Games by Watching YouTube Core question: Can an AI learn to play thousands of different video games just by watching ordinary gameplay videos, without any special access to game code or expensive human demonstrations? Yes. NitroGen proves this is not only possible but practical. By automatically extracting controller inputs from public gameplay videos where streamers display their button presses on-screen, we trained a single vision-action model on 40,000 hours of footage across more than 1,000 commercial games. The resulting agent can zero-shot play unseen games and, when fine-tuned …