Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

How a Radical New Approach to AI Training Is Unlocking Collective Intelligence

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Matt McDonagh
Sep 17, 2025
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In the world of finance, the lone genius trader is a myth.

The real advantage comes from having the best information network, a web of sources that feed you insights faster and more accurately than the competition. For years, I’ve applied this principle to my investments and the AI systems I build. Now, a groundbreaking paper from the Gensyn AI team reveals how this same networking principle is set to completely upend how we build artificial intelligence itself.

The core problem the researchers tackle is a bottleneck strangling AI progress. Training powerful AI models using the dominant method, Reinforcement Learning (RL), requires immense, centralized computing power. This has led to an arms race where only a handful of tech giants can afford to play, creating a fragile, expensive, and walled-off ecosystem. The Gensyn team asked a revolutionary question: What if, instead of building one colossal, costly brain, we could create a "swarm" of smaller AIs that learn from each other?

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