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Hongming Wang
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We built it during the NVIDIA DGX Spark Full-Stack AI Hackathon β€” and it ended up winning 1st place overall πŸ†

Agent tooling is getting powerful.

But something interesting happens when you start running many agents at the same time:

the bottleneck shifts from intelligence β†’ coordination.

Over the past year, I’ve been working heavily with systems like OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and Claude Code to automate different parts of my workflow.

As the number of agents increased, the real problem became clear:

managing agents started to feel like managing windows.

So we asked a different question:

What if agents weren’t just tools?

What if they were team members inside an actual organizational structure?

That idea became Starfire.

We built it during the NVIDIA DGX Spark Full-Stack AI Hackathon β€” and it ended up winning 1st place overall πŸ†

After the hackathon, we decided not to leave it as a demo.

We continued building it as a real system.

Today, Starfire has evolved into:

Molecules AI
https://www.moleculesai.app/

The core idea is simple:

the future isn’t single agents.

the future is agent organizations.

Inside Molecules AI:

workspaces represent roles
agents collaborate across runtime boundaries
hierarchies replace flat workflows
coordination becomes a first-class primitive

Instead of building another chatbot interface,

we’re building something closer to:

an AI Team Operating System

Interestingly, our internal AI team is already using Molecules AI to help develop Molecules AI itself.

If you’re working on multi-agent systems, orchestration layers, or agent infrastructure β€” I’d love to connect and exchange ideas.

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