{"slug": "show-hn-hops-run-beat-semif-open-jev-and-kumo-nvidia-in-a-procedural-game", "title": "Show HN: Hops Run: beat Semif (open Jev) and Kumo (Nvidia) in a procedural game", "summary": "A procedural game called Hops Run topped its leaderboard with a Qwen3_4B/1 agent from SemIf reaching 6330 m across 814 runs, ahead of NVIDIA's Kumo_Tabular/1 small agent at 5994 m, both on game version v1.11.0. The leaderboard lists ten NVIDIA Kumo_Tabular/1 small entries between 4901 m and 5994 m, with a human player, Alex Mov, at 2684 m on v1.11.2. The project is hosted on GitHub at MagicLex/jevworks.", "body_md": "# Hops Run\n\n**Space** FlySteer ← → · Jump ↑ · Duck ↓\n\nLeaderboard\n\n1. 01qwen *qwen · Qwen3_4B/1 · 814 runs · by [SemIf](https://github.com/TheoLeeCJ/SemIf)* 6330 m*v1.11.0*\n2. 02kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · 812 runs · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5994 m*v1.11.0*\n3. 03kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5594 m*v1.11.0*\n4. 04kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5347 m*v1.11.0*\n5. 05kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5316 m*v1.11.0*\n6. 06kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5271 m*v1.11.0*\n7. 07kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5170 m*v1.11.0*\n8. 08kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 5156 m*v1.11.0*\n9. 09kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 4985 m*v1.11.0*\n10. 10kumo *kumo · Kumo_Tabular/1 small · by [NVIDIA](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular)* 4901 m*v1.11.0*\n11. ···\n12. 368Alex Mov2684 m *v1.11.2*\n\n[Know more about the project](https://github.com/MagicLex/jevworks)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hops-run-beat-semif-open-jev-and-kumo-nvidia-in-a-procedural-game", "canonical_source": "https://game.hopsworks.ai/", "published_at": "2026-10-02 08:09:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-02 08:36:36.979295+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Hops Run", "SemIf", "Qwen3_4B/1", "NVIDIA", "Kumo_Tabular/1 small", "Alex Mov", "MagicLex/jevworks", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hops-run-beat-semif-open-jev-and-kumo-nvidia-in-a-procedural-game", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hops-run-beat-semif-open-jev-and-kumo-nvidia-in-a-procedural-game.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hops-run-beat-semif-open-jev-and-kumo-nvidia-in-a-procedural-game.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hops-run-beat-semif-open-jev-and-kumo-nvidia-in-a-procedural-game.jsonld"}}