Recently, AI16Z founder Shaw launched FUD against an AI Agent project called Swarms on the X platform, stating on his X platform that the founder of Swarms is a scammer and cannot write code.
Affected by this news, the project token SWARMS of Swarms has dropped over 20% in 24 hours, but it still maintains a rise of over 400% in the past 7 days, with a current market value of nearly 300 million USD.
In addition to the founder of AI16Z's direct confrontation causing a significant public outcry, the ongoing controversy between Swarms and AI16Z on Twitter has sparked extensive discussions about their differences in technical architecture and applications.
Currently, the AI Agent sector is a blue ocean, but the competition is also quite fierce, especially with the leading Virtuals Protocol and AI16Z ecosystem projects accounting for over 50% of the market capitalization in this sector. How is Swarms able to break through the encirclement as a project that does not rely on these two major "AI Agent groups"? Does the project itself have any innovations or unique features? And is its founder Kye Gomez really, as Shaw said, a fraud who can't even write code?
Swarms Transitioning from Web2 to Web3
Swarms, initiated by the current 20-year-old Kye Gomez in 2022, is a multi-agent LLM framework aimed at developers. This project enables multiple AI Agents to collaborate like a team through intelligent orchestration and efficient cooperation, thereby addressing complex business operational needs. The framework offers powerful scalability, supports seamless integration with external AI services and APIs, and provides AI Agents with long-term memory capabilities to enhance contextual understanding.
In its latest released white paper, it details the concept of Swarms and its uniqueness. According to the content described in the white paper, Swarms is a multi-agent collaborative AI Agent, which differs from individual agents like the large prediction model GPT-4. While these individual agents are powerful, they have significant limitations when handling complex tasks. In contrast, multi-agent collaborative AI Agents like Swarms allow agents to collaborate with each other and specialize in division of labor, with each agent focusing on tasks they are good at, thereby improving overall efficiency.
The Swarms algorithm is designed to address many challenges in multi-agent collaboration, such as task allocation, resource management, and coordination issues. Through the Swarms algorithm, agents can quickly exchange information and automatically allocate tasks based on task requirements and their own capabilities, ensuring that each task is executed by the most suitable agent.
It is evident that the core concept of its operation draws inspiration from collective intelligence systems in nature, such as bee swarms and ant colonies, introducing this efficient collaborative model into the field of artificial intelligence, emphasizing seamless cooperation among multiple AI agents to tackle complex tasks.
The project's token is SWRAMS, which serves as the universal currency for transactions and collaboration among its intelligent agents. Agents can use SWRAMS to pay for service fees, obtain data resources, participate in market transactions, and more.
In the design of the project, the Swarm algorithm provides key support for agent collaboration, and SWARMS coin, as the universal currency of the agent economy, plays an irreplaceable role in promoting agent transactions and incentivizing agents to participate in economic activities. According to the latest news released by the project team, in the upcoming new feature, users can use SWARMS tokens to buy and sell agents.
According to Kye Gomez, currently, the Swarms development framework has given birth to over 45 million AI Agents, providing efficient solutions for multiple industries such as finance, insurance, and healthcare.
Originally, the project was just a Web2 AI Agent project. According to the founder, the project has been running for three years. The project only launched its token on December 18, 2024, which means that at this moment, the project officially transitioned from Web2 to Web3.
The project currently enjoys a high level of community engagement among numerous AI Agents, thanks to its product philosophy and innovation. At present, industry insiders generally believe that the next stage for AI Agents is collective collaboration (Agent Swarms), which achieves more efficient work through communication and cooperation among multiple agents. This approach allows agents from different frameworks to interact and leverage their professional advantages to perform better in specific tasks and scenarios. Swarms are tapping into this billion-dollar development trend.
Another reason that makes its project explode in popularity and hard to ignore is that the project's founder, Kye Gomez, is a highly controversial figure.
Controversies Behind the Genius Founder
Kye Gomez, the core founder of Swarms, is hailed as a "genius boy" in the field of artificial intelligence. In his autobiography, he mentions that he dropped out of high school, and his experience of developing Swarms and successfully operating 45 million AI agents in just three years has attracted people's attention and curiosity.
Not only has he launched the Swarms project, but according to the information, he also has other excellent projects and research achievements in the AI field. For instance, at the Agora open-source AI research laboratory, he has focused on the combination of AI with biology and nanotechnology, providing technical support for the intersection of these two cutting-edge fields. In addition, he developed Pegasus, a project focused on natural language processing and embedding models; at the same time, he participated in the open-source implementation of AlphaFold3, providing tooling support for research in the field of biology.
In the autobiography, Kye Gomez writes, "I grew up in Hialeah, one of the worst cities in Florida, a fourth-world hell where various crimes are rampant. I never graduated from high school. In fact, I was expelled from three high schools."
After graduating from high school, I have never attended college. I only have an office in Doral, a small town in Miami. Additionally, I have mastered PyTorch skills and can implement research papers without code, as researchers in both large academia and large industry do not want to open source their code.
Then, when some of these implementations became popular because they were indeed useful, such as Tree of Thoughts, I faced brutal attacks from the artificial intelligence elites who wanted to gain all the attention and credit for work that did not belong to them, like the people at Tree of Thoughts and OpenAI now.
Since last year, I have implemented hundreds of research paper models for free, and aside from the endless verbal harassment from the elites and their rulers, I have received no return.
In his self-statement, we can see Kye Gomez as a young man from a "small town". Although he has a high level of talent, he has spent a long time using his abilities to secure a place for himself in the elite-filled field of AI.
This paragraph may explain why Swarms has been deeply involved in Web2, but recently shifted to Web3. Web3 allows it to achieve "monetization of talent." It has proven to be the right choice, as Swarms has emerged, and its current market value has reached 300 million USD.
In media reports, Kye Gomez started learning programming at the age of 10 and applied his newly acquired programming knowledge to games, which ultimately led him to understand artificial intelligence. Gomez stated in front of the media that at the age of 13, he created his first artificial intelligence model to crack his mother's Gmail account to obtain PlayStation codes for shopping in the platform's store. Since then, Gomez has become obsessed with artificial intelligence and data science. Previously, he developed a Slack-based AI assistant through APAC AI.
Kye Gomez's early emergence was not due to the products he released, but rather because he questioned Open AI's new product for plagiarizing Swarms. In 2024, OpenAI released an open-source product— the Swarm framework, used for building, orchestrating, and deploying multi-agent systems. Upon seeing this product, Kye Gomez stated, "The Swarms framework is the first production-grade multi-agent orchestration framework in history. OpenAI stole our name, code, and methodology. Everything from the syntax of the agent structure to the Swarm class objects comes from our codebase."
Kye Gomez openly questioned OpenAI's theft, but it did not garner public support for him. Some netizens dug up his history of making false claims and indicated that from the README documents published by both sides on GitHub, it is clear that OpenAI is the more reliable one. The general sentiment is that Kye Gomez's insistence on plagiarism raises suspicions of him making false claims. OpenAI has not responded to the accusations of plagiarism against Kye Gomez.
The Entanglement of Swarms and AI16Z
Faced with the rapidly growing project Swarms, AI16Z founder Shaw couldn't sit still either. He stated on X that the founder of Swarms is a fraud and cannot write code. However, netizens were not impressed by Shaw's remarks and more urged him to "mind his own business."
Currently, the projects within the AI16Z ecosystem are undoubtedly the hottest in the AI Agent track, and its founder Shaw holds significant influence in the industry, being referred to as the godfather of AI.
The questioning of Kye Gomez has undoubtedly sparked enthusiastic discussions among everyone. The discussions within the community are not only focused on Kye Gomez himself, but more on the comparison between the two products. This comparison mainly revolves around Eliza and Swarms, with Eliza being an open-source modular architecture developed by Shaw, primarily used to create AI Agents that can seamlessly interact 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 lies in the fact that Eliza is designed for a single AI Agent, while Swarms focuses on the coordination between multiple AI Agents. To explain the differences for developers in simpler terms, Eliza is a framework for developing a single AI Agent, allowing developers to quickly build an AI Agent project according to this framework. In contrast, Swarms provides developers with a set of tools; those who want to create AI Agents using Swarms can leverage these tools and experiences to freely create their own, less standardized AI Agent projects, with a focus on collaboration among AI Agents.
It can be said that Eliza is the present of blockchain AI Agents, while Swarms represents the future of AI Agent development. This is also the imaginative part of Swarms.
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· 06-13 16:25
How long ago was this news? Are we still reviewing it to learn something new? Laughing to death.
Who is the future of AI Agents, Swarms or Fud, the founder of AI16Z?
Jessy*, Golden Finance*
Recently, AI16Z founder Shaw launched FUD against an AI Agent project called Swarms on the X platform, stating on his X platform that the founder of Swarms is a scammer and cannot write code.
Affected by this news, the project token SWARMS of Swarms has dropped over 20% in 24 hours, but it still maintains a rise of over 400% in the past 7 days, with a current market value of nearly 300 million USD.
In addition to the founder of AI16Z's direct confrontation causing a significant public outcry, the ongoing controversy between Swarms and AI16Z on Twitter has sparked extensive discussions about their differences in technical architecture and applications.
Currently, the AI Agent sector is a blue ocean, but the competition is also quite fierce, especially with the leading Virtuals Protocol and AI16Z ecosystem projects accounting for over 50% of the market capitalization in this sector. How is Swarms able to break through the encirclement as a project that does not rely on these two major "AI Agent groups"? Does the project itself have any innovations or unique features? And is its founder Kye Gomez really, as Shaw said, a fraud who can't even write code?
Swarms Transitioning from Web2 to Web3
Swarms, initiated by the current 20-year-old Kye Gomez in 2022, is a multi-agent LLM framework aimed at developers. This project enables multiple AI Agents to collaborate like a team through intelligent orchestration and efficient cooperation, thereby addressing complex business operational needs. The framework offers powerful scalability, supports seamless integration with external AI services and APIs, and provides AI Agents with long-term memory capabilities to enhance contextual understanding.
In its latest released white paper, it details the concept of Swarms and its uniqueness. According to the content described in the white paper, Swarms is a multi-agent collaborative AI Agent, which differs from individual agents like the large prediction model GPT-4. While these individual agents are powerful, they have significant limitations when handling complex tasks. In contrast, multi-agent collaborative AI Agents like Swarms allow agents to collaborate with each other and specialize in division of labor, with each agent focusing on tasks they are good at, thereby improving overall efficiency.
The Swarms algorithm is designed to address many challenges in multi-agent collaboration, such as task allocation, resource management, and coordination issues. Through the Swarms algorithm, agents can quickly exchange information and automatically allocate tasks based on task requirements and their own capabilities, ensuring that each task is executed by the most suitable agent.
It is evident that the core concept of its operation draws inspiration from collective intelligence systems in nature, such as bee swarms and ant colonies, introducing this efficient collaborative model into the field of artificial intelligence, emphasizing seamless cooperation among multiple AI agents to tackle complex tasks.
The project's token is SWRAMS, which serves as the universal currency for transactions and collaboration among its intelligent agents. Agents can use SWRAMS to pay for service fees, obtain data resources, participate in market transactions, and more.
In the design of the project, the Swarm algorithm provides key support for agent collaboration, and SWARMS coin, as the universal currency of the agent economy, plays an irreplaceable role in promoting agent transactions and incentivizing agents to participate in economic activities. According to the latest news released by the project team, in the upcoming new feature, users can use SWARMS tokens to buy and sell agents.
According to Kye Gomez, currently, the Swarms development framework has given birth to over 45 million AI Agents, providing efficient solutions for multiple industries such as finance, insurance, and healthcare.
Originally, the project was just a Web2 AI Agent project. According to the founder, the project has been running for three years. The project only launched its token on December 18, 2024, which means that at this moment, the project officially transitioned from Web2 to Web3.
The project currently enjoys a high level of community engagement among numerous AI Agents, thanks to its product philosophy and innovation. At present, industry insiders generally believe that the next stage for AI Agents is collective collaboration (Agent Swarms), which achieves more efficient work through communication and cooperation among multiple agents. This approach allows agents from different frameworks to interact and leverage their professional advantages to perform better in specific tasks and scenarios. Swarms are tapping into this billion-dollar development trend.
Another reason that makes its project explode in popularity and hard to ignore is that the project's founder, Kye Gomez, is a highly controversial figure.
Controversies Behind the Genius Founder
Kye Gomez, the core founder of Swarms, is hailed as a "genius boy" in the field of artificial intelligence. In his autobiography, he mentions that he dropped out of high school, and his experience of developing Swarms and successfully operating 45 million AI agents in just three years has attracted people's attention and curiosity.
Not only has he launched the Swarms project, but according to the information, he also has other excellent projects and research achievements in the AI field. For instance, at the Agora open-source AI research laboratory, he has focused on the combination of AI with biology and nanotechnology, providing technical support for the intersection of these two cutting-edge fields. In addition, he developed Pegasus, a project focused on natural language processing and embedding models; at the same time, he participated in the open-source implementation of AlphaFold3, providing tooling support for research in the field of biology.
In the autobiography, Kye Gomez writes, "I grew up in Hialeah, one of the worst cities in Florida, a fourth-world hell where various crimes are rampant. I never graduated from high school. In fact, I was expelled from three high schools."
After graduating from high school, I have never attended college. I only have an office in Doral, a small town in Miami. Additionally, I have mastered PyTorch skills and can implement research papers without code, as researchers in both large academia and large industry do not want to open source their code.
Then, when some of these implementations became popular because they were indeed useful, such as Tree of Thoughts, I faced brutal attacks from the artificial intelligence elites who wanted to gain all the attention and credit for work that did not belong to them, like the people at Tree of Thoughts and OpenAI now.
Since last year, I have implemented hundreds of research paper models for free, and aside from the endless verbal harassment from the elites and their rulers, I have received no return.
In his self-statement, we can see Kye Gomez as a young man from a "small town". Although he has a high level of talent, he has spent a long time using his abilities to secure a place for himself in the elite-filled field of AI.
This paragraph may explain why Swarms has been deeply involved in Web2, but recently shifted to Web3. Web3 allows it to achieve "monetization of talent." It has proven to be the right choice, as Swarms has emerged, and its current market value has reached 300 million USD.
In media reports, Kye Gomez started learning programming at the age of 10 and applied his newly acquired programming knowledge to games, which ultimately led him to understand artificial intelligence. Gomez stated in front of the media that at the age of 13, he created his first artificial intelligence model to crack his mother's Gmail account to obtain PlayStation codes for shopping in the platform's store. Since then, Gomez has become obsessed with artificial intelligence and data science. Previously, he developed a Slack-based AI assistant through APAC AI.
Kye Gomez's early emergence was not due to the products he released, but rather because he questioned Open AI's new product for plagiarizing Swarms. In 2024, OpenAI released an open-source product— the Swarm framework, used for building, orchestrating, and deploying multi-agent systems. Upon seeing this product, Kye Gomez stated, "The Swarms framework is the first production-grade multi-agent orchestration framework in history. OpenAI stole our name, code, and methodology. Everything from the syntax of the agent structure to the Swarm class objects comes from our codebase."
Kye Gomez openly questioned OpenAI's theft, but it did not garner public support for him. Some netizens dug up his history of making false claims and indicated that from the README documents published by both sides on GitHub, it is clear that OpenAI is the more reliable one. The general sentiment is that Kye Gomez's insistence on plagiarism raises suspicions of him making false claims. OpenAI has not responded to the accusations of plagiarism against Kye Gomez.
The Entanglement of Swarms and AI16Z
Faced with the rapidly growing project Swarms, AI16Z founder Shaw couldn't sit still either. He stated on X that the founder of Swarms is a fraud and cannot write code. However, netizens were not impressed by Shaw's remarks and more urged him to "mind his own business."
Currently, the projects within the AI16Z ecosystem are undoubtedly the hottest in the AI Agent track, and its founder Shaw holds significant influence in the industry, being referred to as the godfather of AI.
The questioning of Kye Gomez has undoubtedly sparked enthusiastic discussions among everyone. The discussions within the community are not only focused on Kye Gomez himself, but more on the comparison between the two products. This comparison mainly revolves around Eliza and Swarms, with Eliza being an open-source modular architecture developed by Shaw, primarily used to create AI Agents that can seamlessly interact 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 lies in the fact that Eliza is designed for a single AI Agent, while Swarms focuses on the coordination between multiple AI Agents. To explain the differences for developers in simpler terms, Eliza is a framework for developing a single AI Agent, allowing developers to quickly build an AI Agent project according to this framework. In contrast, Swarms provides developers with a set of tools; those who want to create AI Agents using Swarms can leverage these tools and experiences to freely create their own, less standardized AI Agent projects, with a focus on collaboration among AI Agents.
It can be said that Eliza is the present of blockchain AI Agents, while Swarms represents the future of AI Agent development. This is also the imaginative part of Swarms.