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Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price — The Goo
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price — The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.
Related
- Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released 'much earlier' than the end of the year (Laura Bratton/The Information)
- Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (Madison Mills/Axios)
- Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra (Artificial Analysis)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-10-19