Box CEO Aaron Levie: 'Almost All AI Model and Agent Progress Is Downstream From Evals'

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In a June 23 statement, Levie argues that evaluation systems — not model size or new architectures — are the true upstream driver of AI progress, and that the gap between AI pilots and production-grade enterprise agents is fundamentally an evals problem. The builder takeaway: teams shipping reliable agents should treat rigorous, domain-specific eval harnesses as the primary investment, since model improvements, fine-tuning gains, and agent reliability all compound from measurement. The framing aligns with Levie's broader 'a few optimized hero agents beat many lightly-used ones' position on enterprise rollout.