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James McClelland wrote the following in his seminal paper on emergence*:

“The greatest achievements of human cognition may be largely emergent phenomena. It remains a challenge for the future to learn more about how these greatest achievements arise and to emulate them in artificial systems.”

We are inspired by this challenge and at the heart of our technology development efforts is the fundamental quest to build deeply intelligent systems where multiple distributed intelligent modules or agents work with each other and solve tasks cooperatively.

* J. L. McClelland ⁄ Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (2010)

Emergence is a compelling phenomenon observable in systems both natural and engineered.

Systems comprised of simple agents can evolve to exhibit complex patterns and capabilities that transcend those of any individual component. Computing has consistently evolved from monolithic systems to complex distributed architectures demanding orchestration—the personal computing era was launched not by centralized mainframes, but by distributed computing.

We are now entering the Agentic Era where we believe that the orchestration across agents
will give rise to the emergence of unprecedented problem-solving capabilities.

A team with the skills and experience to orchestrate the world's intelligence.

We come from the leading AI labs and technology teams: IBM Research, Google Brain, The Allen Institute for AI, Amazon, and Meta. We've helped build some of the world's most scalable AI systems like IBM Watson, Twitter, Alexa, Amazon Video, and more. We collectively have 25+ PhDs and over 1,000 patents. But we are not just engineers or developers; we are architects of cognitive ecosystems, crafting tools that think, learn, and ultimately, understand. At the core of our development is a commitment to social intelligence - the idea that our technologies should enhance the capabilities of human teams and networks.