China publishes 'landmark paper' on AI-to-AI technique that kicks human 'bottleneck' out of the loop and replaces us with an AI 'modem' — C2C brainwave direct connection achieves 150% boost in inference speed
THE SO WHAT
Direct model-to-model communication that boosts collaborative inference speed and accuracy is a preview of multi-agent systems shedding human-in-the-loop coordination overhead. If C2C-style “AI modems” generalize, your cost model shifts from human orchestration time to how efficiently models can negotiate, compress, and pass internal state.
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