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Cicero

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Last discussed Sep 10, 2026

An AI system developed by Meta to play the strategy board game Diplomacy, notable for its modular architecture combining language models with symbolic planning and evaluation engines.

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Used for: Playing the strategy game Diplomacy with modular AI architecture Praised: Symbolic human-interpretable encoding of plans, separate planning and evaluat... vs: Contrasted with long-horizon LLM prompt loop agents as a safer alternative ar...

"You look at the Cicero system that plays the strategy game Diplomacy, for example — modular architecture. It's not just an LLM that you just prompt and say what move should I do next. It's modular planning engines and evaluation engines and langua..."

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