Compound AI Systems: The Future of Smarter, Team-Based AI

The Rise of the Superorganism: When AI Becomes a Team

Imagine trying to build a versatile robot with only one giant pair of mechanical hands. It wouldn’t work well, right? The same idea applies to AI. Compound AI systems take a smarter approach by combining several specialized AI models to tackle big challenges.

Multiple Brains Working Together- illustration generated by Gemini Model on 26th February 2024

What’s a Compound AI System?

• AI Dream Team: A compound AI system that combines multiple AI models, like a team of robots with unique superpowers. For example, it may include computer vision models to analyze images, natural language processing models to understand text, reasoning models to make decisions, and retrieval systems to find relevant information.
• Specialized Tools: Just like specialized tools in a toolbox, each model in a compound AI system plays a unique role. The computer vision model acts as the “eyes”, the language model as the “communication skills”, the reasoning model as the “logical thinking”, and so on.

Why the Team Approach Works

• Breaking the Limits of…