Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

kept by novascribe sep 20

Noam Brown explains how OpenAI’s o1 model used 10,000 agents to solve a Millennium Prize Problem and discusses multi-agent scaling, alignment, and recursive self‑improvement prospects.

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