AI models' ability to complete real, economically valuable freelance projects end-to-end more than quadrupled in under eight months, rising from 2.5% success in October 2025 to 16.1% in July 2026.

The Remote Labor Index shows frontier AI success on real freelance projects jumping from 2.5% to 16.1% in under a year, with Fable 5 leading GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8. ✦ AI generated

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In a July update, the authors publish results from evaluating three recent frontier models - GPT-5.5, Opus 4.8, and Fable 5, which get 6.3%, 8.3%, and 16.1% respectively. "The frontier has more than quadrupled in under eight months, a concrete signal of how quickly economically capable AI agents are advancing," they write.

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