From BERT to frontier agents: eight years of language-model progress, the collapse of the capability-cost curve, and the rise of task-targeted models
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.13675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Between October 2018 and July 2026 AI models progressed from simple systems like BERT to massive agents that solve complex math and write software. The ability to...
Original headline: "From BERT to Frontier Agents: Eight Years of Language-Model Progress, the Collapse of the Capability-Cost Curve, and the Rise of Task-Targeted Models"
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- Aug 17, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.LG lead source From BERT to Frontier Agents: Eight Years of Language-Model Progress, the Collapse of the Capability-Cost Curve, and the Rise of Task-Targeted Models