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TRUE, BUTNarrowed Superlative

Leads with 43 on a -100 to 100 scale

It also scores 43 on the knowledge benchmark it leads, on a scale that runs from minus 100 to 100, and 55.5% on an exam built so models fail it.

“Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable public model and the new benchmark leader, topping the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and Humanity's Last Exam and setting the highest score to date on the AA-Omniscience knowledge and hallucination benchmark.”

Anthropic positioning and benchmark coverage (Claude Fable 5, August 2026)

Recorded 19 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

6 receipts: 3 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 2 add context. 4 figures on the record, 3 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback) scores the highest on Humanity's Last Exam with a score of 55.5%

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  2. 2Contextartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.

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  3. 3Supports the claimartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback) scores the highest on AA-Omniscience with a score of 43

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  4. 4Supports the claimsiliconreport.com ↗

    Claude Fable 5 is the most capable model Anthropic sells to the general public

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  5. 5Contextsiliconreport.com ↗

    Anthropic says more than 95% of Fable 5 sessions involve no fallback whatsoever

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  6. 6Contradicts the claimthe-decoder.com ↗

    There's a big gulf between what it means to take an exam and what it means to be a practicing physicist and researcher.

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