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

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By Simon SharwoodNov 3, 2026, 1:19 am128 ptsTrending
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…

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