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Five tests published since August, by vendors and universities, score frontier models on real construction drawings. Schedules and notes come back near human. Counting and scale measurement do not. The numbers side by side.
Benchmarks
AI models are getting better at rebuilding apartment plans from interior photos. That score does not prove a model can read a drawing set. Contractors need tests built around revisions and sheet coordination.
Benchmarks
Anthropic's September 2026 release scores 31.4 percent on AutomationBench against 17.1 for Fable 5. Part of the gap is a safeguard. Cache reads cost 75 percent less. Zero data retention depends on where you buy it.
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