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We had GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and GLM 5.3 play NPCs in our living-world RPG, judged blind by six other model families

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Our small role-playing game, RealKeep, has an authored fishing town where a local model speaks as the townspeople. Over the weekend we sat GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and GLM 5.3 in that chair beside it, on the same six sealed questions from three written players: a kid, a tired parent and an old…

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Timeline · 7 reports

  1. 2026-09-09 08:01 · Last Week in AI
    LWiAI Podcast #256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash
  2. 2026-09-08 14:33 · TechRadar AI
    ‘I also want to feel the frontier’ — Gemini users are starting to think that Gemini Pro 4 won’t ever see the light of day thanks to the release of ChatGPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1
  3. 2026-09-08 09:47 · r/GeminiAI
    Updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Ranking shows Gemini 3.8 Flash is nowhere near Fable Or Astra, rather it's worse than GLM 5.3 Flash!
  4. 2026-09-08 09:46 · r/Bard
    Updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Ranking shows Gemini 3.8 Flash is nowhere near Fable Or Astra, rather it's worse than GLM 5.3 Flash!
  5. 2026-09-07 21:32 · r/ChatGPT
    GPT-6-Astra is on par with Claude Fable 5.1 on the (yet again) updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
  6. 2026-09-07 19:48 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Does GPT-6 Astra actually consume fewer tokens than Claude Fable 5.1 and older models for the same tasks?
  7. 2026-09-07 11:39 · r/machinelearningnews
    We had GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and GLM 5.3 play NPCs in our living-world RPG, judged blind by six other model families

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