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title: "Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it"
date: 2026-04-30
source: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/alibabas-metis-agent-cuts-redundant-ai-tool-calls-from-98-to-2-and-gets-more-accurate-doing-it
description: "Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while boosting reasoning accuracy."
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# Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while boosting reasoning accuracy.

*Published: 2026-04-30*