Google Gemini 4 Agents Just Beat Minecraft With No Human Intervention
Agents split up tasks, warned about threats and even recovered items from dead teammates.
Google's Deepmind "AlphaGo" AI is famous for winning at Go, but the company's latest Gemini AI just mastered a far more complex game. Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's final "Ender Dragon" foe with no human intervention by working individually while sharing tips, threats and mistakes, Google researchers revealed in a new paper. The experiment shows how general agentic AI models can now beat complex games, a feat that used to required custom AI software.
To tackle Minecraft, the Gemini 4 team set four AI agents into a sandboxed, randomized Minecraft survival world with a goal to defeat the Ender Dragon. No roles, strategies or game-specific tools were assigned. Each agent controlled a player using the open-source Mineflayer library and coordinated with teammates through in-game chat and shared memory.
During gameplay,...
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