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Sam Altman says OpenAI underestimated challenges of scaling AI agent swarms

Sam Altman said OpenAI had limited understanding of how to scale AI agent swarms while applying them to hard mathematics problems, expects major swarm-coordination progress within three months, and believes the approach could automate AI research.

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  1. 2026-10-30 21:20 · Gizmodo AI
    Sam Altman Reveals Internal Model Name Was 'Hold My Beer,' Pours One Out for All the Lives AI Could Destroy
  2. 2026-10-29 21:24 · r/singularity
    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.

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