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Writer's AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracy

Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox. While throwing more compute at the strongest foundation model works well in product experiments, the costs become unbearable when the product is deployed in production.A new paper from researchers at Writer provides a solution that is accessible to engineering teams. The study takes a systematic look at optimizing the different components of the orchestration layer that wraps around the foundation model, aka the AI harness. By optimizing the harness, the researchers show dramatic reductions in tokens per task, a drop in cost-per-successful-task by up to 61%, and quality that holds steady, all without changing the underlying foundation model.Because the harness is fully under the developer's control and requires no model fine-tuning, engineering [...]

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Xiaomi's HarnessX rewrites its own AI scaffolding mid-task — and smaller models gain the most

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Writer launches AI agents that can act without prompts, taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to a [...]

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Researchers introduce Self-Harness, a framework that lets AI agents rewrite their own rules, boosting performance up to 60%

Not every company can or should build their own frontier AI language model. However, the harness controlling the model is something that most enterprises can and should customize for their specific pu [...]

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Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness [...]

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Writer's AI agents can actually do your work—not just chat about it

Writer, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, is launching a unified AI agent platform designed to let any employee automate complex business workflows without writing code — a capa [...]

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1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis

1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organiz [...]

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How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s [...]

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Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a [...]

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Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic codi [...]

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