Multi-agent teaming scaling will emerge as new scaling dimension for frontier models.

Multi-agent teaming scaling will emerge as new scaling dimension for frontier models. | Maybe we're seeing the dawn of multi-agent teaming scaling where you get better capabilities by scaling the number of agents in parallel working on a problem.

Maybe we're seeing the dawn of multi-agent teaming scaling where you get better capabilities by scaling the number of agents in parallel working on a problem.

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  "context": "Maybe we're about to see something like this happen with with frontier models where maybe capabilities again this is very speculative. Maybe along a certain dimension of scaling obviously pre-training has sort of transition to reasoning scaling and other forms of scaling. Maybe we're seeing the dawn of multi-agent teaming scaling",
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