DeepMind Paper: First-Price Auctions Can Efficiently Allocate AI Agent Markets

A Google DeepMind paper studies decentralized agent markets where AI agents bid via first-price auctions for the right to answer user prompts. It shows the allocation efficiency can reach 1-1/e² of optimal, with the price of anarchy approaching zero.

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