Toby Ord Proposes 'Swarm Scaling' for Agent Clusters

Philosopher Toby Ord's 'Swarm Scaling' post analyzes how large agent swarms scale, citing 1,200 OpenAI agents solving a math problem in 88 hours, and adds a new parameter γ to convert agent scaling into human-equivalent speedup.

2026-10-09 ~ 2026-10-09 · 2 related posts

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