Gartner: open models could handle 90% of agent steps for 1/20 the cost

Open-weight AI models could handle 90% of enterprise agent workflow steps, with best-case costs as low as one-twentieth of using a frontier model throughout, Gartner analysts say. In practice, extra retries and longer outputs may reduce the savings to five or six times. Gartner’s forecast for 2030 puts the emphasis on keeping routine operational work—and the data it processes—under enterprise control. Source

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