Oxford researcher uses GPT-5.6 launch data to estimate how AI agent swarm capabilities scale
tobyordoxford · x · 2026-09-22
Toby Ord (Oxford) uses the small dataset OpenAI released with GPT-5.6 to estimate how capabilities scale when inference compute goes into increasing agent swarm size rather than chain-of-thought length. His 'Swarm Scaling' thread explores how the power of large agent swarms grows as more agents are added — an empirical look at an alternative axis of inference-time scaling.
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