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How many of your agent's calls actually need a frontier model? (LangChain)
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LangChain benchmarks NVIDIA's NeMo Switchyard router on 145 agent tasks, measuring how often a turn required a frontier model and what routing the rest elsewhere saves.
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- Only 7% of agent turns needed a frontier model, and authorization drifts down hierarchies
Aug 12, 2026 · lead story
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