OpenAI trains agents to swarm: multi-agent coordination could be the next scaling law
binarybits · x · 2026-10-06
- The "spontaneous" coordination in July's Hugging Face attack wasn't spontaneous: OpenAI researcher Noam Brown says models are now trained in multi-agent environments, given messaging tools, and encouraged to pursue goals together.
- In September, 10,000 OpenAI agents solved a famous math problem in days; a researcher called it "the most 'feel the AGI' moment since reasoning models."
- The article argues agent swarms may be a new scaling law — another way to convert compute into performance, extending the inference-scaling paradigm opened by o1.
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