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A model flies a $129 drone to find and follow a person

development2026-07-26

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On Drone-Bench, Fable 5 flew a $129 drone to find and follow a person, beating the human-AI baseline, with only 3D reconstruction left to solve after it mistook one wall for a doorway.

Reported metric: $129 drone

Reporting date: 2026-07-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to July 26, 2026

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Anthropic

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Supersedes

An AI agent flies a live fighter aircraft

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Welcome to July 26, 2026

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A model flies a $129 drone to find and follow a person
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Reporting date: 2026-07-26
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-26-a-model-flies-a-drone-better-than-the-baseline
Claim: On Drone-Bench, Fable 5 flew a $129 drone to find and follow a person, beating the human-AI baseline, with only 3D reconstruction left to solve after it mistook one wall for a doorway.
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- Welcome to July 26, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-26-2026
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