Claude Fable 5.2 tops VIALS-AA with 1.60 tool calls per turn, most of any model

ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-11-10

Artificial Analysis published per-turn tool-call stats for the VIALS-AA life-sciences visual reasoning benchmark: Claude Fable 5.2 (max) leads with 1.60 tool calls per turn, well ahead of Grok 4.7 at 1.31, while OpenAI models like GPT-6 Astra sit near the bottom at 1.0 — highlighting divergent vendor strategies on how aggressively models use tools.

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