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Gemini 4 Argon agents autonomously beat Minecraft · arXiv paper

A research paper details how four Gemini 4 Argon AI agents autonomously completed Minecraft by defeating the Ender Dragon. The agents, using the Mineflayer library, planned, wrote, and debugged all necessary programs themselves without human intervention. This achievement, which took 27 hours and involved 605 deaths, marks the first end-to-end autonomous completion of the game by AI agents, highlighting their capability for long-horizon planning and multi-agent coordination. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates advanced AI capabilities in long-horizon planning and multi-agent coordination, applicable to complex software engineering tasks.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Maxence Faldor, Satinder Singh, Roberta Raileanu ·

    A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft

    arXiv:2610.22319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We placed four Gemini 4 Argon agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world and gave them one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon. Each agent controlled a player via an open-source library called Mineflayer and coordinated with its teamm…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft

    We placed four Gemini 4 Argon agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world and gave them one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon. Each agent controlled a player via an open-source library called Mineflayer and coordinated with its teammates through in-game chat and shared memory. No …