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Smaller, Cheaper Models Are Winning at Agentic Tasks
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms OpenAI's larger GPT-5.5 on automation benchmarks, signaling that raw model size no longer predicts agent performance.
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SourceReddit · reddit-openai
The assumption that bigger models automatically perform better is crumbling. Recent benchmark data shows Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash—a smaller, cheaper model—beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on agentic tasks, including real-world automation scenarios tracked by Zapier. This matters because it fundamentally re...
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