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Sep 12, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Google's Multi-Agent Research: Task Structure, Not Agent Count, Determines Architecture Value

Google's research on 260 multi-agent configurations across six benchmarks shows centralized architectures improve parallel tasks by 81% but hurt sequential planning by 39-70%. Teamwork framework adds critique-synthesis loops that retain failed branches. The key insight: agent count isn't an architecture metric—task decomposability, verifiable sub-results, and coordination costs should drive design.