One model leads all eight industry indices at over 100x the cost

Claim

New industry capability indices for finance, legal, healthcare, strategy, engineering and economics put Claude Fable 5 first on all eight, though the frontier costs over 100 times more per task than open-weight challengers, with projections putting Fable-class models on laptops around July 2028.

Reported metric: 100x cost / laptops by 2028

Reporting date: 2026-07-07 (not necessarily the event date)

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