Gary Marcus says commoditized LLMs will shift value to agent orchestration and tooling
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-26
Gary Marcus agrees that LLMs are likely to become commodities and that the real value may move upward into orchestration layers.
- He says competition will push model prices toward the bottom as open-source models expand.
- In that world, the differentiation shifts to neuro-symbolic harnesses, agent orchestration, tooling, and component plugins.
- The reply is a direct endorsement of the idea that the model itself becomes less important than the system wrapped around it.
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