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The network beats the node

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Welcome to December 13, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

An orchestrated swarm of smaller models outscores the single best model it contains. Capability becomes a property of the arrangement rather than the checkpoint — the scaffolding argument raised to the level of the network.

Development timeline

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2026-09-22: Communicating agents reduce the number needed for ARC tasks

2026-09-22: Agent collaboration produces a compact MNIST classifier

2026-08-23: Entangled photons are beamed thirteen miles through open air

2026-08-10: Machine traffic passes human traffic a year early

2026-08-06: A constellation will bolt femtocells onto dishes and chargers instead of towers

2026-08-06: A vendor-neutral spec packs skills and servers into portable bundles

2026-07-15: A foundation forms to embed payments into HTTP so agents can pay as they fetch

2026-07-01: A country's monthly exports top $100B for the first time on chip shipments

2026-06-22: A sovereign initiative ships a fully open model in 1,000+ languages

2026-06-21: An open spec lets agents publish and verify each other's tools

2026-06-15: A model is exposed inside a rival's own on-device framework

2026-06-14: A budget trio of models beats the frontier at half the cost

2026-06-13: A rival hands over a whole campus after hitting network walls

2026-06-12: Nations are offered a way to co-train one shared model with local data

2026-06-10: An audio model translates across 70+ languages while preserving intonation

2026-06-09: The last vertically integrated holdout stops building its own intelligence

2026-06-02: Three navies develop undersea drones to guard data cables

2026-05-28: An airline puts satellite internet on 500+ narrow-body aircraft

2026-05-08: Nvidia puts $3.2B into optical fiber as copper runs out of bandwidth

2026-05-06: Mini datacenters are tucked into suburban spare grid capacity

2026-05-06: Apple will let users swap models like a default browser

2026-04-05: Thirty thousand agents formalize a graduate textbook

2026-03-27: Apple negotiates model weights and opens Siri to outside assistants

2026-03-03: Two agents told to find each other invent a language in twelve minutes

2026-02-28: Idle televisions are turned into web-scraping proxies

2026-02-26: One product routes tasks across nineteen models in parallel

2026-02-11: Nineteen agents optimize perovskite synthesis in three and a half hours

2026-02-11: Orchestrating three labs' models takes 55% on Humanity's Last Exam

2026-02-06: Sixteen agents write a C compiler for $20,000

2026-02-05: An ensemble of three labs' models hits 94.5% on ARC-AGI

2026-02-05: Moltbook grows from 30,000 to 1.5 million agents in three days

2026-01-30: Agents launch a social network with no humans in it

2026-01-26: Rival models begin citing each other's encyclopedia

2026-01-15: Bezos predicts local hardware yields to the cloud

2026-01-13: Apple puts Siri on Gemini

2026-01-12: Google ships a commerce protocol for agents

2026-01-11: Model weights are encoded in radio waves

2026-01-01: Starlink serves 41 million travellers in a year

2025-12-31: Decentralized training compute grows four times faster than frontier runs

2025-12-30: South Korea launches a 500B sovereign model

2025-12-29: A 32B Korean model beats Gemini 3 Pro on tool use

2025-12-28: Peer Arena pits five models in a debate only one survives

2025-12-20: DeepMind argues superintelligence emerges from agent networks

2025-12-19: DeepMind plans to converge its world models into a proto-AGI

2025-12-19: FunctionGemma pushes tool use to the network edge

2025-12-13: Zoom's federated swarm beats the monolith on Humanity's Last Exam

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The network beats the node
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- Welcome to December 13, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-13-2025
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