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Today, the surge in Swarms has once again caught people's attention, igniting heated discussions in the community around two topics: the 'anxiety' rumors about AI16Z founder Shaw and the alleged infringement of the Swarm multi-agent framework by OpenAI's Sama. Some speculate that the driving force behind this market surge might be the emergence of Mcs's AI Agent. This agent not only answers medical knowledge questions but is also considered the most accessible and practical delivery product within the Swarms architecture. Behind it is founder Kye Gomez, a 20-year-old 'genius boy' who dropped out of high school and took three years to develop the multi-agent coordination framework Swarms, running 45 million agents to serve finance, insurance, healthcare, and other sectors, showcasing hardcore strength.

Roller Coaster Trend

After the Swarms token was issued on December 18, it quickly surged to a market cap peak of $74.2 million on the 21st. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, as the market cap plummeted like a roller coaster to the bottom, leaving only about $6 million.

Next, it oscillated around $13 million until the 27th, when it began to rally from a low of $12 million, pushing up to $30 million and then nearly tripling to close to $70 million, almost breaking the previous high. Today's trading volume is also impressive, skyrocketing to $60.8 million. This thrilling market trend has led netizens to feel like they are on a cryptocurrency roller coaster experience package.

The Future Code Behind Swarms

Behind the roller coaster-like price trend is a group of AI agents acting like a closely coordinated team, collaborating to tackle complex challenges. The collective intelligence and coordination abilities far exceed the limitations of a single agent, which is precisely the goal pursued by Kye Gomez's Swarms project. However, creativity and ideas alone are not enough; what truly makes all of this possible is the core technology launched by Swarms—Swarm Node (SNAI). It can be said that SNAI is the 'nerve center' of the AI agent world, providing strong support and assurance for seamless collaboration among agents.

'Genius Boy' Founder

The core founder behind Swarms, Kye Gomez, is hailed as a 'genius boy' in the field of artificial intelligence, showcasing astonishing hardcore strength at just 20 years old. Although he dropped out of high school, he developed the multi-agent coordination framework Swarms in just three years and successfully operated 45 million AI agents, providing high-quality services across multiple industries such as finance, insurance, and healthcare, demonstrating the young talent's formidable capabilities.

In his research on autonomous and collaborative AI agents, he not only developed 'super-efficient SSM + MoE models' and 'hybrid flow models,' but also deeply explored AI alignment and its potential in biology and nanotechnology. In fact, among Kye's many projects, Swarms is just one of his high-quality projects; the young talent's strength is hidden, and upon deeper understanding, it is found that he has many other excellent projects.

For example, Agora serves as an open-source AI research lab focusing on the intersection of AI with biology and nanotechnology, while Pegasus is its exploration in natural language processing and embedding models, and he has also participated in the open-source implementation of AlphaFold3. Kye's resume and achievements demonstrate the rise of a true technological innovator.

Swarms AI Agent Orchestration Framework and Core Functions

Next, let’s begin analyzing the genius boy's Swarms project, which aims to develop and promote enterprise-grade production-ready multi-agent orchestration frameworks. In simple terms, the core function of Swarms is to allow multiple AI agents to collaborate like a team, using collective intelligence to solve complex problems. It not only supports seamless integration with external AI services and APIs to expand functionality but also provides agents with almost unlimited long-term memory to enhance contextual understanding while allowing for custom workflows. For enterprise-level needs, Swarms possesses high reliability and scalability and ensures optimal performance through automated optimization of language model parameters. In this way, Swarms can utilize the collective intelligence between agents to tackle complex challenges more easily than a single agent.

The Swarms project stands out due to its strong technological barriers and market performance. Its AI agent orchestration framework has provided efficient solutions for many enterprises on its official website after nearly three years of stable operation. From data processing to customer service and report generation, Swarms has significantly improved business efficiency through automation while greatly reducing operational costs, demonstrating its impressive strength. As an open-source project, Swarms has also sparked enthusiastic attention in the developer community, with its GitHub Stars surpassing 2.1K, gaining the wisdom and support of many developers. Thus, all that Swarms has accumulated attests to the maturity and innovation of its technology.

SNAI

Netizens on Twitter seem to agree that the next stage for AI agents is group collaboration (Agent Swarms), achieving more efficient work through communication and collaboration among multiple agents. This approach allows agents from different frameworks to communicate with each other and utilize their specialized advantages to excel in specific tasks and scenarios.

Swarm Node (SNAI) serves as an aid for implementing Agent Swarms, a serverless infrastructure designed specifically to support the concept of Swarm. SNAI addresses all technical challenges of running AI agents, allowing users to deploy, coordinate, and manage agents easily through Python scripts without worrying about hardware and infrastructure costs. It also supports chain interactions, scheduling, and multi-language operations, providing new possibilities for small creators who cannot run agents around the clock or lack hardware support.

Users do not need to pay server fees; they only pay for the actual execution time used, making SNAI more efficient than other subscription-based solutions. What sets SNAI apart is that its agents are not isolated but can collaborate in a 'chained' manner, forming a Swarm.

The role of Swarm is to assign tasks to different agents, with each agent focusing on a specific task and passing the result to the next agent upon completion. Through REST API and Python SDK, other applications can easily integrate SNAI, and users can flexibly coordinate the behavior of their Swarm (e.g., when to run and which data to use).

But that's not all. As the SNAI framework is still in its early development stage, multiple new features will be added in the future, including data storage (a mini-cloud database that allows agents to share selected data), task scheduling (running agents at specific times), and an agent library (ready-made agents created by the community for running, customizing, and optimizing). Additionally, SNAI will achieve multi-language compatibility. It currently provides a Python client for simplified API operations and plans to support agents written in Go, Rust, TypeScript, C#, PHP, and other languages. The community has already begun developing a TypeScript client and will support more languages in the future.

In just this week, there have been over 500 builds—these 'dependencies' are used to optimize the execution efficiency of AI agents. There have been over 10,000 executions—instances where agents have paused after being activated. SNAI charges only for active runtime, greatly enhancing the flexibility of agent operations.

Core features of SNAI include support for serverless operation of agents, allowing developers to integrate agents into codebases, enabling chain collaboration and interaction coordination among agents, and adopting a pay-per-use model to significantly reduce infrastructure costs, lowering the barrier to entry for AI agent infrastructure.

Against AI16Z

Both Swarms and AI16Z have significant influence in the field of AI agents. The ongoing controversies on Twitter highlight some similarities, but they differ in technical architecture and applications. Swarms adopts a collaborative 'team' framework to complete complex tasks and improve efficiency through cooperation among multiple AI agents. In contrast, AI16Z's Eliza framework resembles a flexible 'coordinator,' emphasizing multi-platform support and multi-model integration, quickly adapting to various scenarios. Below, we will compare the two agents from two perspectives.

Technical Framework and Architecture

Swarms are like a disciplined team, and the Swarms framework supports multiple AI agents working together, enabling efficient collaboration through autonomy, modularity, and scalability, excelling at breaking down complex tasks and completing operations with 'clear division of labor and seamless cooperation.' The Eliza framework of AI16Z acts more like a versatile coordinator, focusing on multi-platform operation and multi-model integration, while emphasizing interaction between agents, showcasing its uniqueness in adapting flexibly to various application scenarios.

AI Models and Applications

In terms of AI models and applications, Swarms focuses more on how to cleverly integrate existing AI models, enhancing enterprise-level automation and team efficiency through task orchestration and teamwork. It resembles a meticulous commander, adept at appropriately deploying multiple forces and focusing on 'how to do better.' In contrast, AI16Z's Eliza framework offers developers greater freedom, supporting various AI models (such as Llama, Claude) and providing applications with more flexibility to tackle various scenarios, from social media management to financial transactions, thus delivering a versatile solution. One focuses on collaboration, while the other emphasizes diversity; both are on par in innovative applications, each with its strengths.

Overall, Swarms and AI16Z are exploring the future of AI agents through distinctly different paths. Swarms resembles a disciplined team that impresses enterprise-level users through efficient collaboration and hardcore technology, while AI16Z's Eliza acts more like a versatile free player, showcasing unlimited potential through flexible adaptation and scenario diversity. In fact, both have their own merits. In this era of fierce competition, the story of AI agents has just begun. Who will stand out in this race? We shall wait and see!

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