Author: Jessy, Golden Finance
Recently, AI16Z founder Shaw launched a Fud to an AI Agent project Swarms on the X platform, saying on his X platform that the founder of Swarms is a liar and cannot write code.
Affected by the news, Swarms' project token SWARMS fell by more than 20% in 24 hours, but it still maintained a 7-day increase of more than 400%, and the current token market value is nearly US$300 million.
In addition to the direct confrontation between the founder of AI16Z, which caused a lot of public opinion storm, Swarms and AI16Z have been controversial on Twitter recently, and the differences between the two in technical architecture and application have also caused widespread discussion.
Although the AI Agent track is a blue ocean, the competition is also very fierce, especially the top Virtuals Protocol and AI16Z ecological projects occupy more than 50% of the market value of this track. For a project that does not rely on these two "AI Agent groups", how did Swarms break through the siege? What is innovative and unique about the project itself? And is its founder Kye Gomez really a liar who can't even write code as Shaw said?
Swarms from Web2 to Web3
Swarms was initiated by Kye Gomez, who is now 20 years old, in 2022. It is a multi-agent LLM framework for developers. Through intelligent orchestration and efficient collaboration, multiple AI agents can work together like a team to solve complex business operation needs. The framework provides powerful scalability, supports seamless integration with external AI services and APIs, and provides long-term memory functions for AI agents to enhance contextual understanding.
In its latest white paper, the concept and uniqueness of Swarms are explained in detail. According to the content of the white paper, Swarms is a multi-agent collaborative AI Agent, which is different from individual agents such as large prediction models such as GPT-4. Although such individual agents are powerful, they have significant limitations in handling complex tasks. Multi-agent collaborative AI Agents such as Swarms can enable agents to collaborate with each other and specialize in division of labor, so that each agent focuses on tasks that it is good at, thereby improving overall efficiency.
Swarms' algorithm is designed to solve many challenges in multi-agent collaboration, such as task allocation, resource management, and coordination. Through the Swarms algorithm, agents can quickly exchange information and automatically assign tasks based on task requirements and their own capabilities to ensure that each task is performed by the most suitable agent.
It can be seen that the core concept of its operation draws on collective intelligence systems such as bee colonies and ant colonies in nature, introducing this efficient collaboration model into the field of artificial intelligence, emphasizing seamless cooperation between multiple AI agents to handle complex tasks.
The token of the project is SWRAMS, which is actually the universal currency for transactions and collaboration between intelligent agents. Intelligent agents can use SWRAMS coins to pay for services, obtain data resources, participate in market transactions, etc.
In the design of this project, the Swarm algorithm provides key support for the collaboration of intelligent agents, and SWARMS coins, as the universal currency of the intelligent agent economy, play an irreplaceable role in promoting intelligent agent transactions and incentivizing intelligent agents to participate in economic activities. According to the latest news released by the project, in the upcoming new features, users can use SWARMS tokens to buy and sell agents.
According to Kye Gomez, the Swarms development framework has created more than 45 million AI agents, providing efficient solutions for multiple industries such as finance, insurance, and healthcare.
At first, the project was just a Web2 AI Agent project. According to the founder, the project has been running for three years. The project will not issue coins until December 18, 2024, which means that at this moment, the project will officially switch from Web2 to Web3.
The project currently has a very high community voice among many AI Agents, which is inseparable from the project concept and innovation of its products. At present, people in the AI industry generally believe that the next stage of AI Agent is group collaboration (Agent Swarms), which achieves more efficient work through communication and cooperation between multiple agents. This method allows agents from different frameworks to interact and use their professional advantages to perform better in specific tasks and scenarios. And Swarms is in line with this development trend.
Another reason why the project became so popular that cannot be ignored is that the founder of the project, Kye Gomez, is a very controversial figure.
The controversy behind the genius founder
Kye Gomez, the core founder of Swarms, is known as a "genius boy" in the field of artificial intelligence. In his autobiography, he said that he dropped out of high school. However, his experience of developing Swarms and successfully running 45 million AI Agents in three years attracted people's attention and curiosity.
Not only did he start the Swarms project, but according to the information, he also has other excellent projects and research results in the field of AI. For example, in the open source AI research laboratory Agora, he focused on the combination of AI, biology, and nanotechnology, providing technical support for the intersection of these two cutting-edge fields. In addition, he developed Pegasus, a project focusing on natural language processing and embedding models; at the same time, he also participated in the open source implementation of AlphaFold3, providing tool support for research in the field of biology.
In his autobiography, Kye Gomez wrote, "I grew up in one of the worst cities in Florida, Hialeah, a fourth world hellhole with rampant crime. I never finished high school. In fact, I was expelled from three high schools.
After high school, I never went to college. I just had an office in Doral, a small town in Miami. And, I mastered PyTorch skills to implement research papers without code, because researchers in large academia and large industry don't want to open source their code.
Then, when some of these implementations became popular because they were really useful, like Tree of Thoughts, I was brutally attacked by the AI elite who wanted to get all the attention and credit for their work that didn’t belong to them, like the people at Tree of Thoughts and OpenAI right now.
Since last year, I have implemented models for hundreds of research papers for free, with no reward other than endless verbal harassment from the elites and their rulers.”
In his autobiography, we can see that Kye Gomez, as a young man from a "small town", although he has high talent, has used his talent over a long period of time to gain a place for himself in the AI track full of elites.
This statement may explain why Swarms has been working on Web2 but has recently turned to Web3. Web3 allows it to realize the "monetization of talent". Facts have proved that its choice is correct. Swarms has succeeded and its current market value has reached 300 million US dollars.
According to media reports, Kye Gomez started learning programming at the age of 10 and applied his new programming knowledge to games, which eventually led Gomez to understand artificial intelligence. Gomez once said to the media that at the age of 13, he created his first artificial intelligence model to crack his mother's Gmail account and obtain PlayStation codes to shop in the platform's store. Since then, Gomez has become obsessed with artificial intelligence and data science. Previously, he also developed an artificial intelligence assistant based on Slack through APAC AI.
Kye Gomez first became famous not because of the product he released, but because he questioned Open AI's new product for plagiarizing Swarms. In 2024, openAI released an open source product - Swarm framework for building, orchestrating and deploying multi-agent systems. Seeing the product, Kye Gomez said, "Swarms framework is the first production-level multi-agent orchestration framework ever. OpenAI stole our name, code and methods. From the syntax of the agent structure to the Swarm class object, everything comes from our code base."
Kye Gomez's public questioning of Open AI's plagiarism did not attract public support. Some netizens dug up his past record of plagiarism and said that judging from the README documents published by both parties on Github, OpenAI is obviously more reliable. The general public opinion is that Kye Gomez insisted on plagiarism and is suspected of plagiarism. Open AI did not respond to Kye Gomez's plagiarism questioning.
Swarms and AI16Z's entanglement
Faced with the fast-growing Swarms project, AI16Z founder Shaw couldn't sit still. He said on X that the founder of Swarms was a liar and couldn't write code. However, netizens were not impressed by Shaw's remarks, and more asked Shaw to "take care of himself."
At present, the projects in the AI16Z ecosystem are undoubtedly the hottest in the AI Agent track. Its founder Shaw also has enough say in the industry and is known as the Godfather of AI.
His questioning of Kye Gomez has undoubtedly sparked heated discussions. The discussion within the community is not only about Kye Gomez itself, but also involves the comparison of the two products. The comparison between the two is mainly focused on Eliza and Swarms. Eliza is an open source modular architecture developed by Shaw, which is mainly used to create AI agents that can interact seamlessly with users and blockchain systems.
AI16Z is designed based on this framework, and AI16Z itself has become a representative project of the AI Agent framework.
The most significant difference between these two products is that Eliza is for a single AI Agent, while Swarms is for the coordination between multiple AI Agents. To explain the difference between them for developers in more popular terms, perhaps Eliza is an AI Agent development framework, and developers can only quickly build an AI Agent project according to this framework. Swarms, on the other hand, provides some tools for developers. Developers who want to use Swarms to create AI Agents can use these tools and experience to freely create their own AI Agent projects that are not so highly unified. Swarms is aimed at the collaboration between AI Agents.
It can be said that Eliza is the present of blockchain AI Agent, while Swarms is the future of AI Agent development. This is also the imaginative part of Swarms.
