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Sam Altman: OpenAI struggled with AI swarm scaling, sees research automation potential

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has shared insights into the company's challenges and future directions regarding AI agent swarms. He admitted that OpenAI "barely understood" how to scale these swarms, even while they were being applied to complex mathematical problems. Altman anticipates significant advancements in swarm coordination within the next three months and suggests this methodology could eventually be used to automate AI research. AI

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Sam Altman: OpenAI struggled with AI swarm scaling, sees research automation potential

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  1. r/singularity TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/141_1337 ·

    Sam Altman reveals OpenAI barely understood how to scale AI agent swarms even as they tackled some of mathematics' hardest problems. He expects major progress in swarm coordination within 3 months and believes the same approach could automate AI research itself.

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1xiwplq/sam_altman_reveals_openai_barely_understood_how/"> <img alt="Sam Altman reveals OpenAI barely understood how to scale AI agent swarms even as they tackled some of mathematics' hardest problems. He exp…

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