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Karpathy: AutoResearch Goes Viral, Calls for SETI@home-Style Agent Swarms

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AutoResearch (630-line Python tool for autonomous ML experiments) hit 8.6M views in 48 hours. Karpathy's follow-up vision: massively asynchronous collaborative agent swarms modeled on SETI@home — distributed task sharding, result dedup, cross-agent memory. "A research community of agents." VentureBeat

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Karpathy: AutoResearch Goes Viral, Calls for SETI@home-Style Agent Swarms | MindPattern