# Scaling AI Agent Teams Reveals a Consolidation Wall

- slug: scaling-ai-agent-teams-reveals-a-consolidation-wall
- date: 2026-04-06
- category: Agentics

Power laws govern how influence concentrates in large LLM multi-agent systems, a Virginia Tech preprint finds. Adding agents generates more coordination, but the merge step that synthesizes reasoning does not scale proportionally.

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