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2026-07-04·BYTEDANCE·ai scaling law discovery
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ByteDance's Seed AI team published a research paper on July 2, 2026, revealing a new scaling law for AI agents.

ByteDance's Seed AI team published a research paper on July 2, 2026, revealing a new scaling law for AI agents.

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ByteDance's Seed AI team published a research paper on July 2, 2026, revealing a new scaling law for AI agents. The law states that AI agents can double their learning speed every three months by interacting with real-world environments over extended periods. This finding comes as the global AI industry searches for alternatives to the brute-force approach of scaling data and compute during initial training, which has been warned by industry figures like OpenAI's Andrej Karpathy may not last forever. The team developed EdgeBench, a benchmarking suite with 134 ultra-long-horizon tasks. This discovery indicates that ByteDance is positioning itself at the forefront of agentic AI, which could drive increased demand for compute infrastructure and sustain the AI boom.

Source: SCMP article

What the sources said:

  • “AI agents can double their learning speed every three months by interacting with real-world environments over extended periods.”
  • “Prominent industry figures – including OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy – have warned that this brute-force approach cannot last forever.”
  • “The team developed EdgeBench, a benchmarking suite featuring 134 ultra-long-horizon tasks.”

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