Token Costs

Vals AI finds AI agent teams barely outperform solo agents, costing up to 5.1x more: Vals AI research found that teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents while costing up to 5.1x more. In tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5, only one of four showed a measurable quality gain. Anthropic data showed quality plateaus beyond ten agents while token costs keep rising.

AI agents • The Decoder

Manus 2.0 launches Cascade agent harness to cut token costs by 32%: Manus 2.0 has debuted featuring the Cascade agent harness, which reduced token usage by 23.2% and costs by 32% in a test. The release also introduces Cue, an application that provides each agent with its own email, phone number, and wallet, with a Chinese version currently in development.

AI Applications • Pandaily

Artificial Intelligence

Developer cuts API costs by 77% using GPT-6.1 Sol as planner