We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention. Voyager consists of three key components: 1) an automatic curriculum that maximizes exploration, 2) an ever-growing skill library of executable code for storing and retrieving complex behaviors, and 3) a new iterative prompting mechanism that incorporates environment feedback, execution errors, and self-verification for program improvement. Voyager interacts with GPT-4 via blackbox queries, which bypasses the need for model parameter fine-tuning. The skills developed by Voyager are temporally extended, interpretable, and compositional, which compounds the agent's abilities rapidly and alleviates catastrophic forgetting. Empirically, Voyager shows strong in-context lifelong learning capability and exhibits exceptional proficiency in playing Minecraft. It obtains 3.3x more unique items, travels 2.3x longer distances, and unlocks key tech tree milestones up to 15.3x faster than prior SOTA. Voyager is able to utilize the learned skill library in a new Minecraft world to solve novel tasks from scratch, while other techniques struggle to generalize.
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Indonesia's entertainment scene is currently defined by a massive surge in , a dominant horror-anthology culture , and a social media landscape where TikTok and live commerce have become the primary drivers of popular video trends. 🎬 Popular Movies & TV Shows (2024–2025)
Among local platforms, Vidio stands out with its "less is more" strategy, focusing on bigger production budgets, A-list talent, and stories not told elsewhere. The platform has released 51 original titles (406 episodes) in 2022–2023 alone. It posted a 24% increase in regional viewing, the sharpest among Indonesian services. Iflix has also expanded its footprint by partnering with Screenplay Films to produce 26 made-for-OTT movies, tapping into the booming demand for local content. Even short-form dramas are gaining traction, with FlexTV ranking in the top three free entertainment apps in Indonesia as of August 2024.
YouTube acts as the primary entertainment hub for Indonesian households. It has largely replaced traditional television for younger generations. High-production talk shows, reality series, and celebrity vlogs dominate the trending tabs. TikTok: The Viral Catalyst
remains the most-subscribed creator (~54.5M), specializing in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang content that draws millions of fans.
The platform's influence extends beyond user statistics to cultural impact. In 2025, Indonesia "accidentally won the internet" with two viral memes that captured global attention. The Tung Tung Tung Sahur phenomenon—an AI-generated caricature of an Indonesian wooden drum used to wake Muslims for pre-dawn meals during Ramadan—generated nearly half a billion views on TikTok alone. It inspired an anime-style music video with over 80 million views and remixes by Dutch DJ duo W&W. The character has since spawned merchandise sold worldwide and even inspired a meme token. As one observer noted, the meme is "a sign of the growing cultural heft of one particular Southeast Asian country—Indonesia".
In this work, we introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent, which leverages GPT-4 to explore the world continuously, develop increasingly sophisticated skills, and make new discoveries consistently without human intervention. Voyager exhibits superior performance in discovering novel items, unlocking the Minecraft tech tree, traversing diverse terrains, and applying its learned skill library to unseen tasks in a newly instantiated world. Voyager serves as a starting point to develop powerful generalist agents without tuning the model parameters.
"They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI. The bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills, suggesting that the tech behind ChatGPT could automate many workplace tasks." - Will Knight, WIRED
"The Voyager project shows, however, that by pairing GPT-4’s abilities with agent software that stores sequences that work and remembers what does not, developers can achieve stunning results." - John Koetsier, Forbes
"Voyager, the GTP-4 bot that plays Minecraft autonomously and better than anyone else" - Ruetir
"This AI used GPT-4 to become an expert Minecraft player" - Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch
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@article{wang2023voyager,
title = {Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models},
author = {Guanzhi Wang and Yuqi Xie and Yunfan Jiang and Ajay Mandlekar and Chaowei Xiao and Yuke Zhu and Linxi Fan and Anima Anandkumar},
year = {2023},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv: Arxiv-2305.16291}
}