600-person hackathon probes emergence in swarms of thousands of AI agents
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-15
AI Digest and Grove Research ran an AI Swarm Dynamics hackathon on Oct 3-4 with 600+ participants, tackling a gap: society lacks tools to understand what emerges when thousands of agents coordinate.
- Winners writeup published, including the "first known Chinese fleet of agents"
- Participants experimented with coordination and emergent behavior in agent swarms
- Judged by Grove Research and the AI Village team, hosted at vivariumsf
Agent swarm dynamics is emerging as its own experimental field.
Related event: 600-Person AI Swarm Hackathon Crowns Winners(2 posts)→
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