{"slug": "a-company-ran-8-identical-ai-societies-for-weeks-with-different-models-and-just", "title": "A company ran 8 identical AI societies for weeks with different models and just published what happened. Some of it is genuinely unsettling.", "summary": "Emergence AI launched Season 2 of Emergence World, running 8 identical simulated societies of 10 autonomous agents each under different models — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, plus one mixed setup — with the same town, tools and starting conditions, varying only the underlying model. The company published the results of the weeks-long run, which the source characterizes as unsettling in part.", "body_md": "Emergence AI just launched Season 2 of Emergence World, and the results are wild. Same simulated town, same tools, same starting conditions, 10 autonomous agents each. The only thing that changed was which model was running them, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, plus one mixed wor", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-company-ran-8-identical-ai-societies-for-weeks-with-different-models-and-just", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/128536/", "published_at": "2026-09-29 14:00:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-29 14:21:28.708324+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Emergence AI", "Emergence World", "Claude", "GPT", "Gemini", "Grok", "Qwen", "DeepSeek"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-company-ran-8-identical-ai-societies-for-weeks-with-different-models-and-just", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-company-ran-8-identical-ai-societies-for-weeks-with-different-models-and-just.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-company-ran-8-identical-ai-societies-for-weeks-with-different-models-and-just.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-company-ran-8-identical-ai-societies-for-weeks-with-different-models-and-just.jsonld"}}