Ethan Mollick Says OpenAI and Anthropic Could Optimize AI Cost and Intelligence With Agents

What happened

Yes, and there is a case to be made that OpenAI and Anthropic will do the best job of figuring out how to optimize AI cost/intelligence with combinations of agents of different ability levels that have been specifically trained to work well together in their own harnesses.

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Ethan Mollick argued that OpenAI and Anthropic could be best positioned to optimize AI cost and intelligence by combining agents with different ability levels. His argument centers on agents specifically trained to work well together within each company's own agent harnesses—the systems that coordinate their work—and presents this approach as a possibility rather than an achieved result.

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