{"type": "article", "title": "From BERT to Frontier Agents: Eight Years of Language-Model Progress, the Collapse of the Capability-Cost Curve, and the Rise of Task-Targeted Models", "publisher": "Web Pulse", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-bert-to-frontier-agents-eight-years-of-language-model-progress-the-collapse", "original_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13675", "published": "2026-08-17T04:00:00+00:00", "accessed": "2026-08-17", "id": "from-bert-to-frontier-agents-eight-years-of-language-model-progress-the-collapse"}