Beyond Bigger Models: The Race to Make AI Useful at Work

The Big Idea

The next AI breakthrough may not be a model that wins a leaderboard. It may be a model that costs less to run, fits into an organization’s workflows and can be trusted with the keys to the office. Recent developments from Reflection AI, Cohere and Bitdefender point to a contest expanding beyond raw capability: the practical challenge is making AI useful once it leaves the demo.

That shift is easy to miss because models still get the splashiest announcements. But a clever system...