Artificial Intelligence
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft
Four agents using Google’s Gemini 4 Argon completed Minecraft without human input after 27 hours 14 minutes, while the team reported 2,783 programs, 229 messages, 605 deaths and a $1,620 session cost.
- Four AI agents using Gemini 4 Argon completed Minecraft and defeated the Ender Dragon without human input.
- The Google DeepMind team placed the agents in a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies or game-specific tools.
- The agents split tasks on their own, warned one another about danger, recovered items from dead teammates and kept mistakes in shared memory.
- The run lasted 27 hours and 14 minutes, during which the agents wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, sent 229 chat messages and died 605 times.
- The article said the session would cost $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon price due in 2027.
Four AI agents on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon completed Minecraft and defeated the Ender Dragon without people intervening. The article presented this as the first such autonomous run.
The Google DeepMind team put the agents into a randomly generated world and did not assign roles, strategies or game-specific tools. The agents then divided work themselves, warned each other about threats, recovered items from teammates that had died and recorded mistakes in a shared memory.
The run took 27 hours and 14 minutes. During that time, the agents wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, exchanged 229 chat messages and died 605 times.
The article said the session would have cost $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon price that applies in 2027. It described the result as the latest example of agentic AI systems beating games that once needed purpose-built models.
Named in this story
Companies
- provided the Gemini 4 Argon model
Organisations
- Google DeepMind
- the team that ran the experiment
Products and systems
- Gemini 4 Argon
- the model the agents used
- Minecraft
- the game the agents completed
How the source tells it
The article used a celebratory, milestone-led register, with repeated emphasis on autonomous completion and a first-time result.
- triumph the story framed the run as a notable success and a first
- novelty it stressed the lack of human input and the unusual autonomy of the agents