Pico and ESP8266

I'm not able to connect to Wifi either, similar issue as others have had with the uncaught no ready.
I can send AT commands, I have the red light, I get the blue light when sending a command

I have the 0.25 version ESP8266 (AT+GMR) am loading the right module and baud is set to 115200. I have a 10uF capacitor between ground and +3.3v at the connections on the ESP8266.

I've logged the ouput of AT+RST below, I've no idea what I'm looking at but it seems to suggest a memory issue MEM CHECK FAIL.

Can anyone help me move forwards?

AT+RST
> 
> OK
> 
>  ets Jan  8 2013,rst cause:2, boot mode:(3,0)
> 
> load 0x40100000, len 1396, room 16 
> tail 4
> chksum 0x89
> load 0x3ffe8000, len 776, room 4 
> tail 4
> chksum 0xe8
> load 0x3ffe8308, len 540, room 4 
> tail 8
> chksum 0xc0
> csum 0xc0
> 
> 2nd boot version : 1.4(b1)
>   SPI Speed      : 40MHz
>   SPI Mode       : QIO
>   SPI Flash Size & Map: 8Mbit(512KB+512KB)
> jump to run user1 @ 1000
> 
> ?ՁMEM CHECK FAIL!!!
> ?rl??n?
> Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd.

This is the output of AT+GMR

> AT+GMR
> AT version:0.25.0.0(Jun  5 2015 16:27:16)
> SDK version:1.1.1
> Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd.
> Jun 23 2015 23:23:50
> 
> OK