Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without human help
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
- Who
- Google DeepMind
- What
- demonstrated four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeating Minecraft’s Ender Dragon in 27 hours
- Quote
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human input, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run.
What happened
Google DeepMind's four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon without human input, assigned roles, preset strategies, or game-specific tools. They coordinated tasks and recorded mistakes in shared memory, completing the run in 27 hours and 14 minutes while writing 2,783 JavaScript programs, exchanging 229 chat messages, and dying 605 times. The reported cost was $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon price taking effect in 2027.
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The story so far
Google DeepMind said four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft from scratch without human help, defeating the Ender Dragon in a run that The Decoder reported lasted 27 hours and 14 minutes. The agents operated in a sandbox using only code and text; according to The Decoder, they had no assigned roles, preset strategies or game-specific tools. The agents divided tasks through chat, shared notes and debugged errors together. The Decoder reported that they wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, recorded mistakes in shared memory and died 605 times during the run. It put the session’s cost at $1,620 using the standard Gemini 4 Argon price taking effect in 2027.
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