Actually, I think Microsoft just posted the results of research the other day that would be relevant. They were looking at self-organized AI swarms instead of centralized orchestration, and found that just starting up thousands of SOTA models really can precipitate a natural hierarchy and work toward problem solving.

At the very least, the swarm would be able to set up a means of claiming avenues of thought, then verifying the solutions (or lack thereof) of other agents.

It's quite clear this process - whatever it may be - works, given the results we've seen in the past few weeks.