Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours, writing 2,783 programs
GoogleDeepMind · x · 2026-10-17
Google DeepMind placed four general-purpose Gemini 4 Argon agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world with one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon.
- Operating purely with code and text, with zero human help
- They wrote 2,783 programs over 27 hours
- Divided up tasks via chat, shared notes, and debugged errors together
The dragon fell — a striking demo of autonomous task division and collaboration by general-purpose agents in an open world.
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