# Noam Brown

Noam Brown is an OpenAI researcher discussing reasoning models, agent teams and results from his employer on the Dwarkesh Podcast.

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[Original website](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/noam-brown)

## Sources

- [Dwarkesh Podcast](https://www.dwarkesh.com/): Follow extended conversations with researchers, builders and historians into specific claims and disagreements.

## Perspectives

- [More agents can buy speed. The savings still need measuring.](/perspectives?position=brown-coordination-cost) (Noam Brown): Brown argues that parallel agents can reduce waiting time while increasing total compute. He expects better models to organize themselves more effectively and credits the underlying model with most of the mathematical result, while saying very large teams remain poorly compared with smaller ones.

## Terminal notes

- [A faster answer can still cost more work](/notes/noam-brown-2026-09-17.md): Noam Brown describes agent teams as a way to finish sooner by spending more compute. He expects stronger models to coordinate better, while acknowledging limited measurement of very large teams.

## Parallels

- [The answer is right. Was the question?](/parallels?parallel=right-answer-wrong-question): When producing an answer gets cheaper, where does the useful work move?

## Context references

- [https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/noam-brown](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/noam-brown)

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