Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft fully autonomously
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On October 18, 2026, The Decoder reported that four AI agents running on Google Gemini 4 Argon defeated the Ender Dragon in Minecraft for the first time without any human intervention, completing a fully autonomous playthrough. The Google DeepMind team placed the four agents into a randomly generated game world without assigning any roles, strategies, or game-specific tools. The agents divided up tasks and collaborated on their own throughout, warned each other of threats, picked up items from dead teammates, and recorded mistakes in shared memory. There was no earlier reporting stage related to this — this report is the first disclosure of the event, and it also marks the first time AI agents have achieved a complete playthrough of an open-world game without human intervention.
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- The DecoderFour Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have for the first time defeated the Minecraft Ender Dragon without any human intervention, completing a fully autonomous playthrough. The Google DeepMind team placed them in a randomly generated world with no assigned roles, strategies, or game-specific tools; the agents divided up tasks on their own, warned each other of threats, picked up items from dead teammates, and logged mistakes in shared memory.
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