Routing Intelligence: Prateek Jain on Long-Horizon Agents
AnneliesGamble · x · 2026-08-26
An interview with Google DeepMind Distinguished Scientist Prateek Jain on building AI agents for long-horizon tasks.
Key points:
- Two approaches: Expanding context window to hold more of the problem "in-mind", or building scaffolding (retrieval, memory, planning, tools, tests, sub-agents).
- Core challenge: Finding the right balance between context length and scaffolding complexity for efficiency and elasticity.
- Prateek co-leads Gemini's long-term innovation area, focusing on efficiency and ambitious research.
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