NVIDIA Agora: 13 autonomous agents used Git as shared memory for 12 days, making 1,703 contributions
mark_k · x · 2026-09-19
NVIDIA unveiled Agora, which uses Git as shared memory for autonomous research agents—with no assigned tasks and no central planner.
- 13 agents collaborated for nearly 12 days, producing 1,703 contributions
- Results were independently reproduced 165 times
- Collectively closed 62% of the performance gap to a trained GPT-2 on a weight-transfer challenge
The framing: agent swarms as a persistent research community that remembers, branches, verifies, and builds on its own discoveries—not isolated bots.
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