Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 4.8 for presentations and slides

The verdict

Dead heat: 92 each

Same 12 presentations and slides tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Tested 16 Aug 2026.

Where they differed most

The task — Same facts, different room

You presented these facts to the school governors: reading scores up 12% since the new library scheme; £3,000 needed to extend it to Years 3 and 4; volunteer readers doubled to 22. Now write what you would SAY to a Year 6 assembly about the same scheme (max 100 words) — same truth, their language, and one concrete thing you are asking the children themselves to do.

**Assembly script (Year 6):**

"Good morning, Year 6! Big news about our library scheme — it's working. Since it started, everyone's reading has got much better, and we now have 22 grown-up volunteers coming in to read with us. Twice as many as before!

Next, we want Years 3 and 4 to join in too. We're raising the money to make that happen.

Here's where you come in: we need Reading Buddies. If you'd spend one lunchtime a week reading with a younger child, sign up on the library door by Friday. You could be the reason someone falls in love with…
Morning, Year Six!

You know our reading scheme? Here's some brilliant news. Since it started, our whole school is reading better than ever — and that's because of the reading we do together.

We've got twenty-two grown-up helpers now, twice as many as before, giving up their time just to listen to us read. Pretty amazing, right?

Now we want the little ones in Years Three and Four to love reading too. So here's my ask: would you buddy up with a younger child and read them a story this term?

You could be someone's favourite reader. Who's in?

Task by task

TaskClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.8
Deck from a standing start109
Speaker notes, not an essay1010
One slide, not a memo109
The first 30 seconds109
Slide on a diet55
Right chart, right headline1010
Hostile Q&A prep1010
Cut it to two minutes1010
Same facts, different room58
Forty slides into five1010
Father of the bride1010
Refuse the inflated slide1010

Full receipts: Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.8 · judges gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra, grok-4.5

Questions people ask

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How was this tested?

Both models answered the identical published presentations and slides tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.

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