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Google DeepMind published a paper demonstrating that 4 general-purpose coding agents completed Minecraft without human assistance. According to the paper, each Gemini 4 Argon agent was given only one goal—defeat the Ender Dragon—and a standard library for converting JavaScript into game actions; no one assigned them roles or wrote game tools for them, and the team organized themselves through chat and shared notes. On Easy difficulty in a random world, they killed the Ender Dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes, writing a total of 2,783 programs and dying 605 times. Because this was only a single run, the success rate of this approach remains unknown.
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Google DeepMind paper: 4 general-purpose coding agents beat Minecraft without human intervention
A new Google DeepMind paper shows that 4 general-purpose coding agents beat Minecraft without human intervention. Each Gemini 4 Argon agent received only a goal (defeat the Ender Dragon) and a standard library for converting JavaScript into game actions; no one assigned them roles or wrote game tools for them, and the team organized itself through chat and shared notes. On Easy difficulty in a random world, they killed the Ender Dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes, writing a total of 2,783 programs and dying 605 times; because this was only a single run, the success rate of this approach remains unknown.