Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
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Claude Fable 5.1 coding capability demonstration
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<p>Today is <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1">Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day</a>. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research, boasting of a 52.6% score on the brand new <a href="https://www.terminal-bench-science.ai">Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1</a> benchmark (first announced <a href="https://www.tbench.ai/news/terminal-bench-science-0-1">on August 27th</a>), up from 24.7% for Fable 5, 29.0% for Opus 5 and 22.4% for
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