Noam Brown says the agent swarm contributed under 10% to the Navier-Stokes discovery
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-19
Meta researcher Elie Bakouch relays details from Noam Brown: in the recent Navier-Stokes-class discovery, Brown thinks the "agent swarm" component's actual credit is likely quite low — corrected to under 10%. The core breakthrough appears to come from the model/method rather than multi-agent orchestration, a notable damper on the "agent swarms doing science" narrative.
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