Fable 5.2 hits 41.3% on Remote Labor Index, doubling every 3 months
alliekmiller · x · 2026-11-12
Scale Labs updated its Remote Labor Index (RLI) leaderboard: Fable 5.2 scored 41.3%, up from 2.5% a year ago and double Fable 5.1's 17.9% — a doubling time of roughly 3 months.
- What RLI is: a benchmark measuring AI agents' ability to do real, economically valuable remote work, with 240 end-to-end projects sourced from 358 verified Upwork freelancers across 23 domains, each including briefs, input files, gold-standard human deliverables, and real time/cost data.
- Leaderboard (per chart): Fable 5.2 leads at 41.30, ahead of Opus 5.5 (21.25) and GPT 6 Astra (20.83); Gemini Argon 4 sits at 17.08 while claude-opus variants remain in single digits.
- 10 public projects plus an open-source eval platform are released; paper at scale.com/research/rli.
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