VC Founder's Tests Show Multi-Agent Scaling Far Below Expectations

Planetary VC founder Ramez Naam shared benchmark data showing that 100 Opus agents outperform 10 only marginally, calling agent scaling the worst he has seen. He also argued AI's self-improvement loop is 5-10x too weak to sustain an intelligence explosion.

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