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Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test
仅有三个AI模型在500天创业测试中盈利超过起始资本
Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test
The DecoderResearchers at Princeton University built CEO-Bench, a test where AI agents have to run a fictional software company for 500 simulated days. Most current models go broke, and a simple rule-based heuristic with no AI beats nearly all of them.
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