Four Gemini 4 Argon Agents Beat Minecraft Autonomously for $1,620
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-18
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without any human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run, The Decoder reports. With no predefined roles or strategies, the agents coordinated on their own, wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, and died 605 times — a session costing $1,620.
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