LEASH: Training-Free Framework Cuts Agent Costs 19.2% While Matching Opus Performance

Simular and UW-Madison introduced LEASH, a training-free framework that lets computer-use agents start with small models and escalate to strong ones on demand, cutting costs by 19.2% while matching full-time Claude Opus 5 performance.

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