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Gemini 4 Argon Agents Defeat Ender Dragon in Minecraft

By Drooid · Oct 20, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

Google researchers' Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated the Ender Dragon in Minecraft.
Four agents reached The End after about 13.5 hours and killed the dragon in just over 27 hours.
The run consumed 1.35 billion input tokens, costing roughly $1,620 (about $60 per hour).
Researchers said the experiment studies multi-agent coordination before deploying AI in real-world tasks.

History

Historical Context

In March 2016, DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated South Korean champion Lee Sedol in a five-game Go match, marking AI’s first major board-game triumph. The series ended 4-1, with AlphaGo processing 1.2 million GPU-hours and costing roughly $25 million in development resources for its training. Google’s 2024 Gemini 4 Argon agents echo AlphaGo’s multi-agent coordination, spending 1.35 billion tokens and $1,620 to defeat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon. These milestones illustrate how early game-playing breakthroughs have propelled costly, large-scale AI experiments toward real-world task deployment and safety research.

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Story summary

Google researchers' Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated the Ender Dragon in Minecraft.
Four agents reached The End after about 13.5 hours and killed the dragon in just over 27 hours.
The run consumed 1.35 billion input tokens, costing roughly $1,620 (about $60 per hour).
Researchers said the experiment studies multi-agent coordination before deploying AI in real-world tasks.

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