Notably, the budget panel was comparable with Claude Fable 5 in performance.
Notably, the budget panel was comparable with Claude Fable 5 in performance.
A panel of Gemini 3 Flash, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 Pro, fused together, beat solo GPT-5.5 and solo Opus 4.8 outright.
And it landed within 1% of Fable 5 while
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