Cohere Labs: 17-agent heterogeneous team matches 5-agent team at 70% lower cost
Cohere_Labs · x · 2026-10-19
Cohere Labs is hosting an October 30 session on its paper "Scaling Inference-Time Compute with Teams of Coding Agents." The work frames multi-agent team construction as a compute allocation problem: strategic delegation—assigning workers to planning rather than implementation or verification—achieves near-optimal reward at a fraction of the cost. A heterogeneous 17-agent team comes within 1.4 points of a strong homogeneous 5-agent team at 70% lower cost, offering actionable guidelines for optimizing agent budgets under task, cost, and latency constraints.
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