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title: "Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft autonomously"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-autonomously-1e2df3
source_name: "The Decoder"
source_url: https://the-decoder.com/four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-without-any-human-help/
published: 2026-10-18T12:39:51.000Z
topics: ["research", "llms"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft autonomously

*2026-10-18 · Source: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-without-any-human-help/)*

Four agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon defeated the Ender Dragon with no human help. With no predefined roles, they wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat messages and died 605 times. The session cost $1,620.

**Why it matters:** Self-organized multi-agent coordination on a long-horizon task is a concrete step beyond single-agent demos. The $1,620 price tag and 605 deaths show the approach is still costly and brittle, which tempers how soon it transfers to real work.

**Topics:** research, llms

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