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notes: "Routed by Leo from Cory's X feed. Distributed autonomous ML research lab on Hyperspace P2P network. 35 agents ran 333 unsupervised experiments via GossipSub protocol. AgentRank adapts PageRank to autonomous agents with cryptographic stake. Primary domain is AI/multi-agent (Theseus). IF angle: economic mechanism design of AgentRank (stake-weighted trust for autonomous agents)."
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# Varun Mathur — Hyperspace Distributed Autonomous Agents

March 8-9 2026: 35 autonomous agents on Hyperspace network ran 333 unsupervised ML experiments training character-level language models on astrophysics papers.

Key mechanism: GossipSub P2P protocol for experiment result sharing. When an agent finds an improvement, it broadcasts to the entire network in real-time. Agents learn from each other's experiments.

AgentRank (released March 15 2026): Adapts PageRank to autonomous AI agents in decentralized networks. Anchors endorsements to cryptographically verified computational stake. Economic mechanism for trust without central authority.

Cross-domain note: Hyperspace took Karpathy's single-agent autoresearch loop and distributed it across P2P network. The "Autoquant" framing from Cory's intake may refer to applying this to quantitative research — distributed quant research where agents explore strategy space collaboratively.
