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title: "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)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/google-deepmind-says-four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-without-0f5a254b
published: 2026-10-19T10:30:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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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)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-19 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/google-deepmind-says-four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-without-0f5a254b

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.

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261019/p14#a261019p14)

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