Thousand Token Wood: multi-agent economy simulation shipped on a 3B model
A Hugging Face blog post documents a hackathon project called Thousand Token Wood, which implements a multi-agent economic simulation running on a 3-billion-parameter model. The project demonstrates that complex multi-agent coordination can be achieved at small model scales. This is a practical case study in lightweight agentic systems from the HuggingFace Build Small hackathon.
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