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The Google DeepMind team had four AI agents running on Gemini 4 Argon autonomously complete Minecraft in a randomly generated world, killing the Ender Dragon with no human input throughout. The team did not assign them roles, strategies, or game-specific tools; the four agents divided the work among themselves, warned each other of threats, recovered items from fallen teammates, and recorded mistakes in a shared memory. The entire run took 27 hours and 14 minutes, during which they wrote a total of 2,783 JavaScript programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, and died 605 times, costing $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon pricing that takes effect in 2027.
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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents complete Minecraft without human assistance
The Google DeepMind team had four AI agents running on Gemini 4 Argon autonomously complete Minecraft in a randomly generated world, defeating the Ender Dragon with no human input throughout. The team did not assign them roles, strategies, or game-specific tools; the four agents divided the work among themselves, warned each other of threats, recovered items from fallen teammates, and recorded mistakes in a shared memory. The entire run took 27 hours and 14 minutes, during which they wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, and died 605 times, costing $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon prices effective in 2027.