10,000-Agent Swarm Outweighs a Model Generation, Single Models Need Years
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-24
scaling01 estimates the capability gain from a 10,000-agent swarm outweighs the generational jump from Astra to Astra+ (the internal model that solved Navier-Stokes). He clarifies the base model matters — without it, you'd need a million parallel agents — but the breakthrough was mostly enabled by the swarm, and it will take a few model generations before a single model solves problems of similar difficulty alone.
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