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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without human help

Original title: Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help

The Decoderby Matthias Bastian ()1 min read4 · 2 reads
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They slew the Ender Dragon in 27 hours 14 minutes after writing 2,783 programs and dying 605 times.

Google DeepMind dropped four Gemini 4 Argon agents into a randomly generated Minecraft world with no assigned roles, strategies, or game-specific tools. The agents split tasks, warned each other, recovered items from dead teammates, and logged mistakes in shared memory. Over the run they exchanged 229 chat messages. The Decoder says the session cost $1,620 at the stated Gemini 4 Argon price.

Unconfirmed: The Decoder calls this the first fully autonomous Minecraft win; that claim is not independently confirmed here.

Key facts
  • The agents wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs in total.
  • They exchanged 229 chat messages and died 605 times.
  • The run lasted 27 hours and 14 minutes.
  • The Decoder attributes the work to Faldor et al.
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1 min read at the-decoder.com

Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or strategies, they coordinated on their own, wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, and died 605 times. The session cost $1,620.

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By Matthias Bastian · the-decoder.com

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