Four Gemini 4 Argon agents clear Minecraft unaided in 27 hours
THE DECODER reported on 18 Oct 2026 that a Google DeepMind team dropped four Gemini 4 Argon agents into a random Minecraft world with no preset roles, strategies, or game-specific tools; the agents self-organized and slew the Ender Dragon in 27 hours 14 minutes.
According to THE DECODER, four AI agents running Google’s Gemini 4 Argon beat Minecraft for the first time without human help, killing the Ender Dragon. The piece says a Google DeepMind team placed them in a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools; the agents split tasks, warned each other about threats, recovered items from fallen teammates, and logged mistakes in shared memory.
Decoder’s figures: 27 hours 14 minutes total; 2,783 JavaScript programs written; 229 chat messages exchanged; 605 deaths. The session cost about $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon price that takes effect in 2027. The progress figure is credited to Faldor et al. This article follows Decoder’s secondary report; no separate DeepMind blog post was captured.