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The speakers have not measured how effectively 10,000 agents coordinate and lack good evidence that increasing the group from 2,000 to 10,000 agents yields a 2x speedup.
Noam Brown · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“I want to be conservative here because we haven't measured how effective the 10,000 agents are at coordinating.”
“We think it helped.”
“We don't actually have good measurements of saying like,”
“this 10,000 agents led to like a 2x speed up over 2,000 agents or something like that.”Play from 19:00Report a misattribution
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