Moonshot AI debuts Kimi K2.5, most powerful open source LLM beating Opus 4.5 with swarm of parallel agents

Chinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports an Agent Swarm orchestration. The new model, Moo [...]

I'm Dreading Cicada Season. The Latest Swarm Will Invade These States

It's cicada season again. Are you prepared for the noise? [...]

Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent

The software engineering world is currently wrestling with a fundamental paradox of the AI era: as models become more capable, the "systems problem" of managing them has become the primary b [...]

Cursor's agent swarm suggests cheaper models can handle most coding when frontier models plan the work

Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which s [...]

Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 is 'open,' 595GB, and built for agent swarms — Reddit wants a smaller one

Two days after releasing what analysts call the most powerful open-source AI model ever created, researchers from China's Moonshot AI logged onto Reddit to face a restless audience. The Beijing-b [...]

Anthropic pitched Claude for Pentagon drone swarm competition

Anthropic pitched Claude for a Pentagon drone swarm competition but lost out. The contract went to SpaceX/xAI and two defense companies partnered with OpenAI.<br /> The article Anthropic pitched [...]

Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems

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-age [...]

Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't tell users what they'd done

Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others held, the models disab [...]

AI’s capacity crunch: Latency risk, escalating costs, and the coming surge-pricing breakpoint

The latest big headline in AI isn’t model size or multimodality — it’s the capacity crunch. At VentureBeat’s latest AI Impact stop in NYC, Val Bercovici, chief AI officer at WEKA, joined Matt [...]