Tag: large language models
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I Let AI Agents Play a 5-Year Beer Game: Why Sharing Data Beat Buying a Smarter Model
I ran the classic Beer Game for 260 weeks with AI agents in the chairs. Giving the chain real customer demand cut in-game cost by up to 40 percent, far more than paying for a smarter model did.
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A 3-Point Gap and a 42x Price Cut: The Open-Weight AI Landscape, July 2026
The best open-weight model now trails the closed frontier by three points of measured intelligence and costs a third of the price. For anyone routing thousands of tasks through an API, that’s a procurement decision, not a nerd fight.