Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

VentureBeat
Apr 30, 2026, 4:51 pm119 ptsTrending
One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary API costs, and degraded reasoning caused by…

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