Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems (opens in new tab)

Enterprise teams building multi-agent AI systems may be paying a compute premium for gains that don’t hold up under equal-budget conditions. New Stanford University research finds that single-agent systems match or outperform multi-agent architectures on complex reasoning tasks when both are given the same thinking token budget. However, multi-agent systems come with the added baggage […] The post Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems appeared first on...