Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner

For-profit model-makers, many of which are spending billions on AI infrastructure, will be chasing revenue from just ten percent of steps involved in agentic AI workflows, according to analyst firm Gartner.“Nine in 10 agent workflow steps are routine, and open-weight models handle them at parity for a quarter of the price of the cheapest closed model,” the firm’s senior director Mark Petty and group vice president Raymond Paquet wrote last week in new document titled “Open-Weight Models Will Run 90% of Enterprise Agentic Workflow Steps.”“Typical operational workflows involve hundreds of routine executions, such as classification, tool calling, passing, validating and reconciling data,” the pair observe, before suggesting...

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