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Agents2026-07-17 · source-backed
Cast AI GA'd July 15 a multi-model coding agent that routes each task to the right model at the right cost, hard work to frontier models, routine work to open weights. In shadow-mode evals it reports 2.5x cheaper with matching-or-better spec-match and test-pass rates, running in a customer VPC with ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and air-gap support. Vendor-sourced, single press release, so treat the numbers as a claim until someone independent benchmarks it. But the routing thesis is the same one the whole price-collapse story keeps validating.
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