Ex-NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer's INT21 Bets on Self-Improving Agent Swarms
bingxu_ · x · 2026-09-04
Bing Xu, founder and CEO of INT21 (formerly a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA), sat down with Unite.AI to explain the company's approach:
- Agent swarms: focus on optimizing the harness, which determines agent performance on complex tasks, rather than hand-tuning every layer with specialized engineers
- Self-improvement: the swarms continuously learn and adapt without manual tuning
- Recently launched the Inference Engine Factory, with working engineering samples for video, music, and speech
- Argues self-improving infrastructure is already a proven, distinct computing category
- Vision: agent swarms coordinating autonomously across every layer of the AI stack
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