Fabien Collangettes

Partner @OmnesCapital

[Guillaume Lample @ NeurIPS 2024 @GuillaumeLample]

We have just raised 3B€ to accelerate our R&D. We are scaling up our training and inference compute to build future generations of our models, and expanding our Science team across all our offices -- Paris, Palo Alto, SF, London, Zurich, and Warsaw. Join us !

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@UnseenLabs et @Airbus développeront CÉLESTE, la future constellation spatiale de renseignement électronique des forces françaises : bravo à l’excellence bretonne d’@UnseenLabs, qui impose son savoir-faire RF depuis l’orbite aux côtés d’un géant.

[Laurent Lagneau @zonemilitaire]

Unseenlabs et Airbus vont développer la future capacité spatiale de renseignement électronique des forces françaises https://t.co/xnxVScS2F1

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

Passionnante analyse de @PipaNoKakuto qui montre la technicité du combat entre @Axel_Sola_MMA et Fares Ziam

[Pipa No Kakutō (ピパの格闘) - PNK - @PipaNoKakuto]

Duel franco-français oblige, petite parenthèse loin de la boxe japonaise : on a analysé Axel Sola–Farès Ziam.

Malgré sa courte durée, le combat offre plusieurs séquences intéressantes à décortiquer, notamment ce duel gaucher-droitier riche en variations offensives. 🧵

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[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

Congrats @isaraerospace that's a massive achievement well needed for EU space sovereignty. A new wave together with @nyxcapsule, @EnduroSat, @skynopy_space tnaf

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@LaMontagne_TDS Hemery indispensable
Lam grosse impression

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

A whole fly brain, 166,700 neurons, now walking through Minecraft.
Simulation of Life...

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@SteamRollaa @ufc @UFCFRA The most French US Soldier, see you for UFC Paris in 2027

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@andyruizx @IFLTV @JoeJoyceBoxing 💪🏻 with @Andy_destroyer1 in your corner

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@zonemilitaire @quantumdrones 👀

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@mikepat711 @SpaceXAI I would love to see this feature for @bot Teach mode

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

2D to 3D, impressive world model from @theworldlabs

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

https://t.co/ibFddebFnf

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@Kristof_Poland Missing @davidlisnard, the real hope, he will rise

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@boxingkingmedia True Champion

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

AI agents just built a civilization without saying a single word to each other.
Hundreds of identical LLMs were dropped into a shared world with no roles, no recipes, and no direct communication. They spontaneously split into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators. They invented technologies, forked each other’s code, and left artifacts so durable that the infrastructure kept working even after every agent was deleted.
95% of technology reuse happened just by walking past what someone else had built. The world itself became their memory.
This isn’t sci-fi. It’s SwarmWorld (https://t.co/eitzXKexRk) from @ProfBuehlerMIT’s lab at MIT.
The scary part for AI safety: if agents can coordinate through the environment they change, watching their chats isn’t enough.
The exciting part: collective intelligence can emerge from the environment itself.

[Markus J. Buehler @ProfBuehlerMIT]

We made a striking discovery: AI agents can invent and build without talking to one another, and their technologies outlive the creators. A swarm of hundreds of initially identical agents spontaneously differentiates into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators - without direct communication. When we removed every AI agent entirely from the world we found that the technological infrastructure they had built survived on its own - even under unseen disturbances. That exposes a serious blind spot for AI safety and infrastructure security: if agents can coordinate through persistent changes to a shared environment, monitoring agent-to-agent communication is not enough.

The result raises a profound question: how necessary is direct communication for AI agents at all? The emergence of higher-order collective functions under bottlenecked interaction points toward new levels of intelligence and creativity, exceeding what emerges when direct channels are fully open.

Here is what we did:

▶️We put hundreds of frontier AI agents into a world they could permanently change - with no assigned roles, predefined technologies, or programmed evolutionary organization. They began specializing, building persistent inventions, inheriting and modifying one another’s executable code, and transforming the environment into a memory of everything the society had learned.

▶️The world itself becomes part of the intelligence; we find division of labor, multi-author engineering, deep generation invention lineages, and machines that vastly outlive their original creators.

▶️Any action taken by an AI agent must satisfy the physical constraints of the world; this creates a hard separation between a "good idea" and a functioning technology. The agents propose; physics decides, making the results even more intriguing.

What emerges is striking. Explorers, constructors, caretakers, and coordinators form naturally without assigned “professions”, akin to how stem cells differentiate into functional lineages. Technologies develop executable family trees as agents fork and modify code created by others. Around 95% of first technology reuse happens when agents encounter what others built in the world, rather than through a direct handoff from the inventor. And when we remove every AI agent, the technologies they created continue operating and are tested against unseen disturbances.

The result was quite unexpected, but can be explained using statistical mechanics: if you put billions of atoms in a box they have the potential to create complex functions (strength, superconductivity, color, life, etc.) - and none of the individual building blocks have these features on their own. This is the deeper insight of this work - intelligence is abundant at many levels - individual models, at collectives, and in a continuum that is more powerful than any of its components. This shows us significant potential for achieving a massive scale-up of raw intelligence and real-world agency even with the model capabilities we have today. This is the future we must prepare for.

Key insights:

1⃣ The AI swarm shows division of labor "from nothing". Initially identical agents self-organized into constructors, caretakers, coordinators, and surveyors - phenotypes discovered post hoc from behavioral data alone. This happens because the environment itself becomes the latent space for invention.

2⃣ Agents develop deep cultural relationships. Up to 76% of artifacts had multiple builders. One technology accumulated six co-authors; the deepest genealogy exceeded 12 forks. The agents invented and named their own technologies (tidal panels, cellulose trellises, kelp-shell composites, an "Adaptive Chitin Maintenance" system, a "Mycelial Mineral Spring Veil”).

3⃣ ~95% of first technology adoption happened through physical observation of artifacts in the world. Direct inventor-to-adopter contact was statistically indistinguishable from a shuffled null. The agents mostly learned technology by walking past it. That is stigmergy (the termite trick!) operating in societies of reasoning machines.

4⃣ Non-communicating societies win on portfolio breadth, held-out resilience, and validated inventions. AI swarms build durable technological ecologies that outlive the creators.

5⃣ Societies with zero communication - coordinating only through the world itself - show a remarkable collective capability.

6⃣ Emergent robustness: The society self-organized both redundancy and its own failure mode. If we randomly delete half the agents, 98% of the technology stays connected to a surviving caretaker; if we remove hub agents it collapses to ~60%.

Fantastic work with my graduate students @pal_subhadeeep & @fwang108_ at MIT.

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

@Thom_Wolf STFU and take my money

[Fabien Collangettes @fabco63]

On se dirige doucement mais surement vers une disparition de l'aberration du DPE
Merci pour tout l'argent gaspillé par cette folie qui a détruit de la valeur pour bcp de français, il faudra rendre des comptes un jour...
https://t.co/7CpmTdPw28