SwarmChat: Open-Source Slack for Agents, 500B Tokens Shows Swarms Scale 6x Faster
wellecks · x · 2026-10-30
- Team built SwarmChat, an open-source API-based Slack for agents (DMs, channels, threads, files) that generalizes past setups like message tools and boards.
- They ran large-scale swarm-scaling experiments on ProgramBench, burning 500B tokens.
- Key findings: a 16-agent swarm matched single-agent performance 6x faster; more agents keep improving results, making "swarm scaling" a third axis of scaling that anyone can start exploring today.
- Project is open-source with an accompanying blog post.
Related event: CMU and Fleet AI Open-Source SwarmChat, a Slack for Agent Swarms(6 posts)→
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