Summary
According to a post on X by @ArtificialAnalys, Claude Fable 5.2 scored 67% on VIALS-AA, Artificial Analysis's version of Handshake's VIALS benchmark, which covers gel blots, plasmid maps and phylogenies. That put it ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon at 64% and GPT-6 Astra at 63%. The post says Fable averaged about 37 tool calls per task, cropping and measuring images step by step, compared with about 8 for Astra. The post is mainly a video of a single task.
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What happened
Artificial Analysis says Claude Fable 5.2 scores 67% on VIALS-AA, its version of Handshake's VIALS benchmark of gel blots, plasmid maps and phylogenies, ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon at 64% and GPT-6 Astra at 63%. Fable averaged about 37 tool calls per task, cropping and measuring images step by step, against about 8...
Why it matters
Teams comparing AI models for analysing lab images may find this result relevant, since the benchmark tests reading of gel blots and plasmid maps. The gap in tool calls suggests Fable worked through images in many more steps, which could bear on cost and speed for similar tasks. Watch for the full benchmark results and whether other testers reproduce these scores.
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