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

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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.

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