Harvard and MIT Unveil Research on Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion AI Agents
SRSchmidgall · x · 2026-08-08
A new research project led by Harvard and MIT, involving over 200 scientists, has been published. The collaborative team includes more than 40 experts from major AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI.
The study explores the ambitious concept of simulating the entire world using a staggering 8.3 billion AI agents, offering new perspectives and technical frameworks for understanding complex social dynamics and large-scale system interactions.
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