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Anthropic’s New Model Costs $6K Just to Benchmark
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Claude Fable 5 benchmark tab hits $6,227, exposing soaring frontier costs Running Anthropic’s latest reasoning model through the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index cost $6,227.74, primarily due to 87 million output tokens generated at $50 per million. Fable 5 topped the index with a score of 64.9, dethroning Claude Opus 4.8 and leaving GPT-5.5 at 58.6, and also scored 80.3% accuracy on SWE-Bench Pro. 1
OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, a new benchmark for real-world biology research LifeSciBench comprises 750 expert-authored tasks across seven workflows and seven biological domains, designed to assess AI’s ability to handle messy, ambiguous research—not just fact recall. Tasks were written and reviewed by Ph.D.-level life scientists with industry drug-discovery experience. 2
Hitachi expands OpenAI partnership to modernize legacy systems and boost cyber defense Hitachi will use OpenAI’s Codex agent to analyze mission-critical legacy code and plans to access frontier cybersecurity models through OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber program, with an initial focus on Japan’s financial sector. 3
GPT-5.4 optimizes notoriously finicky Chan-Lam coupling in drug discovery OpenAI’s model is being used in medicinal chemistry labs to suggest and refine reaction conditions, speeding up optimization of a carbon-nitrogen bond-forming reaction critical to pharmaceutical synthesis. 4
Anthropic joins carbon removal coalition, helping secure $915M in new pledges Anthropic is the newest member of Frontier, an advance market commitment that now totals $1.8 billion to jumpstart permanent carbon removal technologies. The AI company joins Stripe, Google, Shopify, Meta, and JPMorgan Chase. 5
Anthropic pauses controversial Claude Agent SDK billing overhaul after developer pushback The plan would have moved agent and headless CLI usage off subscription pools onto tiered monthly credits and API billing. Facing criticism from tool makers, Anthropic announced on its support site that nothing has changed for now. 6
Anthropic upgrades Claude Design to integrate directly with Claude Code The design assistant can now use a local codebase, generate assets with existing product elements, and hand off designs to Claude Code. Users can also create and edit designs from the command line with the /design command. 7
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