Three emergences in AI: scaling, inference-time scaling, and multi-agent scaling
sqcai · x · 2026-09-21
A concise framework of three waves of AI emergence: first via scaling of data and models, second via inference-time scaling, and third via scaling of multiple communicating agents, each of which already exhibits the previous two emergences.
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