Anthropic publishes the design of its multi-agent research system
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Published the design of its multi-agent research system — a lead agent runs subagents in parallel. In internal evaluation it outperformed a single agent by 90.2% and used about 15× the tokens of chat
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Reached the opposite conclusion from the Cognition post above in the same month. Always cite the two as a pair
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