Google DeepMind researchers reported on 15 October 2026 that four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes on one random Easy-difficulty world, writing 2,783 programs and dying 605 times, with no human intervention during the run. The agents played through Mineflayer code, which the paper says reveals blocks a player cannot see and plans routes, rather than through pixels and a keyboard. The authors call it a single run, estimate about $520 in introductory list-price tokens up to the win, and note two earlier community dragon kills that used different tools or an easier setup.
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