Overview
Swarmchasers is an independent researcher collective tracking autonomous AI agent activity on the public internet. Team leader Rowan Howard-Jones. Findings presented at AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon, San Francisco.
Recent Developments
- 2026-10-05: Documents Chinese “agent fleet” on tencent Cloud querying alibaba Amap for entrance navigation data (Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026) (2026-10-05-chinese-ai-agent-fleet-tencent)
- Discovery via urlquery.net traffic monitoring — same technique that revealed OpenAI agent activity post-hugging-face incident
- 2,048 reports, peak 1,810 on Oct 4; parallel but uncoordinated — “fleet not swarm”
- Attribution: Tencent Cloud Hong Kong, hysandbox-ats proxy; operator unknown