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# “Nature is the most computationally efficient system we know”: How Refiant used swarm optimization to build a 10-million-token AI model

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**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://thenewstack.io/refiant-protea-swarm-optimization/  

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## Overview

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