AI ResearchThe Decoder·June 28, 2026

Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test

Researchers 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. The article Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test appeared first on The Decoder.

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