{"rewrite":{"id":"r_6d820d5d6b0eb701ad5cec48","clusterId":"c_3da4c0bde794cbf99b077875","slug":"four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-in-27-hours-with-no-human-help","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Four Gemini 4 Argon Agents Beat Minecraft In 27 Hours With No Human Help","summary":"Google DeepMind ran a challenge in which four agents on Gemini 4 Argon tried to defeat Minecraft's End Dragon in a randomly generated world, operating through the Mineflayer bot library. They wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, sent 229 chat messages, died 605 times, and killed the dragon in 27 hours 14 minutes. At standard Gemini 4 Argon pricing, the run cost $1,040 (about 165,000 yen).","whyItMatters":"The run is a measured cost and time figure for a long-horizon multi-agent task, and the article's own caveats (Easy difficulty, knowledge of Minecraft, 22% of programs ending in errors) define how far that figure can be read.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe agents split resource gathering and exploration on their own, and used chat to flag dangerous locations and share how they handled failures. When one died, it posted the coordinates and asked the others to recover its items before they vanished. They used triangulation to locate underground fortresses.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe milestone times were uneven: iron tools at 14 minutes, the first Ender Pearl at 3 hours 6 minutes, the first Eye of Ender at 10 hours 43 minutes. The conditions were not human ones. The agents read surrounding blocks and enemies through code rather than a screen, could use information a player cannot see, and played on Easy after learning Minecraft knowledge in advance.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Gemini 4 Argon's four Minecraft agents wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs and died 605 times. The $1,040 run cost is the smallest number in the log: the agent loop is what Google DeepMind is pricing.","twitterPost":"Gemini 4 Argon's Minecraft agents died 605 times and wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs. The $1,040 bill is the cheap part.","threadsPost":"Gemini 4 Argon's Minecraft run is logged as 2,783 JavaScript programs, 229 chat messages and 605 deaths. The $1,040 price tag is almost incidental; what Google DeepMind bought for it is a full trace of four agents failing, talking, and rewriting code until the End Dragon died.","newsletterBlurb":"Google DeepMind had four Gemini 4 Argon agents play Minecraft through the Mineflayer bot library in a randomly generated world, aiming at the End Dragon. They finished in 27 hours 14 minutes with no human intervention, at a cost of $1,040 at standard pricing. The agents played on Easy with prior Minecraft knowledge and read the world through code rather than a screen, and 22% of the programs they wrote ended in errors.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20261020-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-without-human-help/\",\"title\":\"Four Gemini 4 Argon AI agents cleared Minecraft in 27 hours 14 minutes without any human help, and how much did it cost?\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4675,"outputTokens":676,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792480096,"createdAt":"2026-10-20T07:03:33.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T07:06:10.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T07:06:10.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_3da4c0bde794cbf99b077875","canonicalTitle":"マインクラフトをGemini 4 ArgonのAIエージェント4体が人間の助けを一切借りずに27時間14分でクリア、一体何円かかったのか？","representativeArticleId":"a_4a5c9aba400c7c20d0749b4d","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Minecraft\"],\"studios\":[\"Google\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-20T06:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-20T06:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T07:06:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20261020-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-without-human-help/","title":"マインクラフトをGemini 4 ArgonのAIエージェント4体が人間の助けを一切借りずに27時間14分でクリア、一体何円かかったのか？"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Minecraft"],"studios":["Google"],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}