Cohere: 17-agent heterogeneous teams hit within 1.4 points of 5-agent baseline at 70% lower cost
Cohere · youtube · 2026-10-31
Cohere released a recap video on scaling inference-time compute with teams of coding agents, framing team construction as a compute-allocation problem.
Key findings:
- Strategic delegation matters: assigning workers to planning rather than implementation or verification achieves near-optimal reward at a fraction of the cost
- A heterogeneous 17-agent team lands within 1.4 points of a strong homogeneous 5-agent team on coding tasks at 70% lower cost
- The work offers actionable guidelines for optimizing agent budgets under task, cost, and latency constraints
Paper and blog post are publicly available.
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