{"slug": "anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score", "title": "Anthropic says Fable 5.2 nearly doubles its predecessor’s hardware-design score. Token prices fell 20%, but the cost per task doubled at full effort.", "summary": "Anthropic reported that its Fable 5.2 model scored 83.5 on BenchCAD 2.1, up from 44.4 for Fable 5.1, nearly doubling its predecessor's hardware-design benchmark result. Token prices fell 20%, but the cost per index task at maximum effort rose to $26.54 from $12.99, meaning the cost per task more than doubled at full effort.", "body_md": "Fable 5.2 scored 83.5 on BenchCAD 2.1, up from Fable 5.1’s 44.4. Token prices fell 20%, but cost per index task at max effort rose to $26.54 from $12.99.\n\nThe post [Anthropic says Fable 5.2 nearly doubles its predecessor’s hardware-design score. Token prices fell 20%, but the cost per task doubled at full effort.](https://www.rdworldonline.com/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score-token-prices-fell-20-but-the-cost-per-task-doubled-at-full-effort/) appeared first on [Research & Development World](https://www.rdworldonline.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score", "canonical_source": "https://www.rdworldonline.com/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score-token-prices-fell-20-but-the-cost-per-task-doubled-at-full-effort/", "published_at": "2026-11-09 23:41:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 23:51:38.124332+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Fable 5.2", "Fable 5.1", "BenchCAD 2.1", "Research & Development World"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-says-fable-5-2-nearly-doubles-its-predecessors-hardware-design-score.jsonld"}}