Stanford Study Finds Multi-User Agent Teams Underperform a Single Agent

A Stanford paper on arXiv, "Worse Together," shows across 77 scenarios that when multiple users each deploy their own agents on shared resources like budgets and calendars, the group performs worse than a single agent serving everyone—a result that holds across five frontier models.

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