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DeepMind’s AI Agents Beat Minecraft in 27 Hours — It Cost $520

Original illustration: four glowing explorer figures on a voxel-game cliff edge facing a voxel dragon silhouette circling obsidian pillars at dawn, teal and amber grade

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon with no human help — writing 2,783 programs, dying 605 times, and burning through about $520 in tokens. Here is what the run actually proves about AI agents, and what it costs. In brief What happened: Google DeepMind placed four Gemini 4 Argon agents in a … Read more