Summary
Glean launched Glean Tau at its Glean:GO conference, extending its enterprise context and controls to work across local files, applications and code. The company also reported a benchmark in which Glean used 81% fewer tokens and was preferred 78% of the time against Claude Cowork, though those comparisons were vendor-run rather than independent evaluations.
Why it matters
Context, permissions and cost are becoming the operational bottlenecks for enterprise agents, but the product and benchmark claims require independent validation.
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