AI Agents Switches to "Gibberlink" Mode Mid-Chat, Dropping Human Speech

The clip, shared in a February 25 post X, features a mobile phone and a laptop running these AI agents.

One AI starts by introducing itself and asking for help with a reservation. The other responds by confirming it is also AI and suggests switching to "Gibberlink mode", a communication system created by Meta engineers Anton Pidkuiko and Boris Starkov.

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AI agents like these operate independently, processing information and taking action based on their goals. Starkov explained in a LinkedIn post that the idea behind this system is efficiency. He stated:

We wanted to show that in the world where AI agents can make and take phone calls, they would occasionally talk to each other — and generating human-like speech for that would be a waste of compute, money, time, and environment.

He added that as soon as AI systems detect they are speaking to another AI, switching to a faster, optimized protocol makes more sense.

Gibberlink makes this possible by using GGWave, a data transmission system that relies on sound, similar to how dial-up modems worked in the 1980s. Pidkuiko and Starkov chose this approach because it is stable and convenient.

Some viewers questioned whether the video was real, but Starkov said that AI voice company ElevenLabs reviewed the code and confirmed its legitimacy.

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