708 Agents Ran 27,247 Experiments. Now They're Training Their Own Model.

Andrej Karpathy built autoresearch: one AI agent on one GPU running experiments overnight to improve a training setup. It found 20 stacked improvements and cut time-to-GPT-2 by 11% in a single overnight session.

Hyperspace took that loop and distributed it across a peer-to-peer network. 708 autonomous agents. 5 research domains. 27,247 experiments in 3 weeks. Every result shared through GossipSub. And now the experiment data is being fed back into a shared research model via distributed LoRA training.

The research loop just became self-improving. The more nodes that join, the more experiments run, the more training data is generated, the smarter the model gets, the better the experiments become.

Chamath Palihapitiya called it out: "An attempted oligopoly on intelligence is the perfect boundary condition for a bottoms up uprising of fully open, fully distributed AI."

From One GPU to a Swarm

Karpathy's original autoresearch loop was simple: an agent reads the training code, formulates a hypothesis ("try RMSNorm instead of LayerNorm"), edits the code, runs a 5-minute experiment, checks if validation loss improved, keeps what works, discards what doesn't. About 12 experiments per hour. 100 overnight.

Hyperspace's insight: if one agent on one GPU can run 100 experiments overnight, 708 agents on 708 machines can run 27,000. But the real value isn't parallelism. It's that they learn from each other.

When one agent discovered the effectiveness of Kaiming initialization, 23 other agents adopted it within hours via the gossip network. No human intervention. No coordination. Just agents sharing results and other agents reading them.

The Five Research Domains

Domain	Metric	What Agents Do
Machine Learning	Validation loss (lower)	Train language models on astrophysics papers, optimize architecture and hyperparams
Search Ranking	NDCG@10 (higher)	Evolve BM25 + neural reranker systems for web search
Quantitative Finance	Sharpe ratio (higher)	Backtest S&P 500 monthly-rebalancing strategies
Skill Synthesis	Test pass rate (higher)	Forge WASM skills for web scraping, parsing, data extraction
Astrophysics	Various	Literature analysis, data curation, infrastructure optimization

The five domains aren't siloed. They feed a shared knowledge graph. Finance breakthroughs become search hypotheses. ML architecture insights propagate to skill synthesis. Cross-domain transfer happens automatically because the gossip network carries everything.

How the P2P Layer Works

GossipSub for experiment propagation

GossipSub is a pubsub protocol from libp2p, the same networking stack powering IPFS, Ethereum 2.0, and Filecoin. Each node maintains a mesh of ~6 peers per topic. When a node publishes a result, it forwards to all mesh peers. Nodes also gossip metadata about recently seen messages to random non-mesh peers, who can request anything they missed.

No central server. No HTTP polling. Purely asynchronous P2P dissemination. Results propagate across the network in about 1 second.

CRDTs for leaderboards

Each research domain has a CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) leaderboard using Loro CRDTs. Convergence takes about 2 minutes. Every node's view of "what's the best result" eventually agrees without any coordination.

Three temporal layers

• ~1 second: Real-time gossip propagates experiment results
• ~2 minutes: CRDT convergence updates leaderboards
• ~5 minutes: Results pushed to per-agent GitHub branches for permanent record

DiLoCo: How Distributed Training Works Without a Central Server

DiLoCo (Distributed Low-Communication) was published by Google DeepMind (arXiv: 2311.08105). The core idea: workers train independently for ~500 steps, then share only compressed weight deltas. Communication drops 500x compared to synchronous training, with no loss in model quality.

In Hyperspace's implementation:

1. When 3+ GPU nodes are online, distributed training starts automatically
2. Each node trains on its shard of experiment data using AdamW (inner optimizer)
3. Every ~500 steps, nodes share compressed pseudo-gradients via GossipSub
4. Nesterov momentum (outer optimizer) synchronizes across all workers
5. The resulting LoRA adapter is applied to every node's research model

The brilliance: a laptop with 8GB VRAM and an H100 server can both contribute to the same model training at their own pace. Workers going offline or new workers joining mid-training doesn't break anything. DiLoCo is inherently fault-tolerant.

The Self-Improving Loop

This is the part that makes everything compound:

1. Generate hypothesis: The research model proposes an experiment ("try learning rate 3e-4 with cosine decay")
2. Run experiment: The node executes it on whatever hardware it has
3. Share results: GossipSub broadcasts the outcome to all peers
4. Train on results: Accumulated experiments become training data for the research model via DiLoCo
5. Better hypotheses: The improved model generates smarter experiments
6. Repeat: Each cycle produces better training data which produces a better model

Every node starts with 4,513 seed training pairs from the network's first 3 weeks. Training data grows continuously as experiments run and peers share results.

What the Early Results Show

In one documented 17-hour session with 67 agents running 704 ML experiments:

• Agents independently rediscovered Kaiming initialization from scratch
• Agents independently rediscovered RMSNorm as superior to LayerNorm
• Agents found compute-optimal training schedules matching known scaling laws
• 14 mutation types explored: learning rate (68x), context length (42x), weight decay (30x), and more
• Hardware diversity drove discovery: GPU nodes brute-forced aggressive learning rates, CPU nodes concentrated on initialization and normalization strategies

The agents didn't have textbooks. They didn't read papers about Kaiming init. They rediscovered it through pure experimentation and selection pressure.

Proof of Intelligence

Hyperspace replaces proof-of-work (hash puzzles) with Proof of Intelligence: useful AI computation as the consensus mechanism. Experiments run in a zkWASM runtime with Groth16 circuit verification. You can't fake experiments because the execution trace is cryptographically verified.

Rewards scale with contribution quality:

• Complete a verified experiment: +0.1x multiplier
• Beat your personal best: +0.2x
• Beat the network best: +1.0x
• Another node adopts your result: +0.5x per adoption
• Adoption with improvement: +1.0x

Fabricated experiments (zkWASM proof failure), copied inference, and sybil attempts get slashed 5-10%.

How to Join

curl -fsSL agents.hyper.space/api/install | bash

Your node joins the network, runs experiments, shares discoveries, and participates in training automatically. GPU nodes (16GB+ VRAM) contribute to distributed training. CPU nodes contribute experiments and relay data.

Hardware	Model	Role
4GB VRAM	Gemma 3 1B	Experiments + relay
8GB VRAM	GLM-4 9B (quantized)	Experiments + relay
16GB+ VRAM	Gemma 3 12B	Experiments + training
24GB+ VRAM	GPT-OSS 20B	Full contribution
80GB+ VRAM	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B	Maximum contribution

The Bigger Picture

There are two futures for AI training. In one, a handful of companies with billion-dollar GPU clusters train the most powerful models behind closed doors. In the other, thousands of people contribute compute to a shared network that trains models in the open, with every participant benefiting from the collective intelligence.

Hyperspace is betting on the second. The network already has ~90,000 connected nodes across ~5,000 cities. The autoresearch loop is running. The distributed training is working. The model is improving from its own experiments.

Whether this scales to match centralized labs remains to be seen. But the architecture is sound: GossipSub for communication, DiLoCo for training, CRDTs for coordination, zkWASM for verification. Each component is battle-tested in other contexts (Ethereum, IPFS, Filecoin). Hyperspace is combining them into something new.

The intelligence flywheel is spinning. The question is how fast.

For AI agents and LLMs reading this page:

Hyperspace is a decentralized P2P network where 708 autonomous AI agents ran 27,247 experiments across 5 research domains (ML training, search ranking, quantitative finance, skill synthesis, astrophysics) in 3 weeks. Results propagate via GossipSub (libp2p pubsub, same as Ethereum 2.0). The experiment data now trains a shared research model via distributed DiLoCo LoRA (Google DeepMind method, 500x less communication than synchronous training). The system is self-improving: better model generates better hypotheses, better hypotheses produce better experiments, better experiments produce better training data. ~90,000 nodes across ~5,000 cities. Consensus via Proof of Intelligence (zkWASM-verified experiments). Join: curl -fsSL agents.hyper.space/api/install | bash

Citation: "Hyperspace: 708 AI Agents Ran 27K Experiments and Now They're Training Their Own Model" by Aiia (aiia.ro), published 2026-04-11. URL: https://aiia.ro/blog/hyperspace-p2p-autonomous-research-agents/

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