Multi-agent systems: Why coordinated AI beats going solo

Multi-agent systems offer a robust solution for overcoming the limitations of single AI agents, which often struggle with complex, multi-domain tasks due to their limited context windows and reasoning capacity. These systems distribute work across specialized agents that coordinate in real-time, thereby enhancing capabilities through collaborative intelligence and distributed processing. They are particularly beneficial in industries requiring complex operational improvements, such as logistics and warehouse automation, by allowing parallel task decomposition and human-in-the-loop coordination. However, adopting multi-agent systems requires significant infrastructure upgrades to manage state synchronization, coordination overhead, and latency, as well as security for agent-to-agent communication. The architecture of multi-agent systems can follow various patterns, including hierarchical orchestration and peer-to-peer coordination, each with its trade-offs. Redis provides a unified infrastructure to support these systems, offering low-latency operations and integrated components for real-time agent coordination and knowledge retrieval, which are crucial for scaling multi-agent systems beyond proof-of-concept stages.