Google's AI Agents Finally Beat Minecraft. It Took 27 Hours and 605 Deaths

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Four AI agents just defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon without human assistance. It took them more than 27 hours and hundreds of failed attempts.

In a research paper published on arXiv, Google DeepMind researchers described how four agents powered by Gemini 4 Argon worked together to complete the game in 27 hours and 14 minutes.

Starting empty-handed in a randomly generated survival world on Easy difficulty, the agents gathered resources, crafted equipment, and eventually defeated the final boss.

“To our knowledge, this is the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by AI agents, achieved using only the standard Mineflayer library without pre-scouted seeds or other game-specific tools written by humans,” wrote DeepMind researchersMaxence Faldor, Satinder Singh, and Roberta...

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