4 Gemini 4 Argon agents team up for 27 hours to beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon
robertarail · x · 2026-10-19
Google DeepMind researchers Maxence Faldor, Roberta Raia, and Satinder Singh's team placed four Gemini 4 Argon agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world with one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon.
- Over 27 hours, the agents wrote 2,783 self-authored programs and shared learnings with each other
- The demo showcases Argon's ability to plan, adapt, and solve complex problems as a team
- Congratulated by DeepMind's Raia Hadsell as "a fantastic example" of multi-agent collaboration
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