Mica v0.1 4B mines iron in real Minecraft without generating tokens
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The 4B model plays on a live Minecraft 1.20.4 server by scoring candidate commands from text game state (inventory, nearby blocks, entities) rather than generating text. It reached an iron pickaxe.
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