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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 holds the highest provider-frontier point estimate in LMArena's July 16, 2026 text style-control overall snapshot, with Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 in second place.
· Leaderboard update
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026. It now scores 1507.5 in LMArena's July 16, 2026 snapshot, where it is Anthropic's leading model.
· Model release
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026. It gives OpenAI a new multimodal, language and vision option with API access, according to Epoch AI's catalog.
· Model release
Google released Gemini Flash 3.1 TTS on April 15, 2026. It gives Google a new audio option with API access, according to Epoch AI's catalog.
· Model release
Meta released Muse Spark on April 8, 2026. It gives Meta a new multimodal, language and vision option with API access, according to Epoch AI's catalog.
· Model release
xAI released Grok 4.20 on February 17, 2026. It gives xAI a new language option with API access, according to Epoch AI's catalog.
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