GPT-6 Astra tops Perplexity's research benchmark, beating Claude Fable 5.1 by 13.5%
Perplexity's own research-agent benchmark now crowns GPT-6 Astra, which scores 13.5% higher than Claude Fable 5.1 — while costing 6.1% less per task.
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