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From BERT to Frontier Agents: Eight Years of Language-Model Progress, the Collapse of the Capability-Cost Curve, and the Rise of Task-Targeted Models
arXiv cs.LG — Machine Learning
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What the source reports
An arXiv paper details eight years of language model evolution, tracking rapid capability growth in coding agents alongside steep cost declines.
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So what
Accelerating capability-to-cost collapse makes frontier coding and analytical agents economically viable for high-volume enterprise workflows.
Do what
Update enterprise AI total-cost-of-ownership models and benchmark smaller task-targeted models against existing flagship internal LLM API usage.