The Neuron
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1 week ago
Vellum launched a personal AI assistant that stores user preferences in persistent memory and handles tasks like email triage, calendar management, and meeting preparation with minimal setup required. The system processed 47 emails overnight, flagging 3 for user attention while drafting replies for the remainder. Users can deploy Vellum on multiple platforms including iOS, macOS, Web, Voice, Email, Telegram, and Slack, with options for cloud or self-hosted deployment.
The Neuron
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1 week ago
Claude Fable 5 achieved a 15.8% automation rate on the Remote Labor Index, a benchmark measuring how often AI agents complete real freelance projects at client-acceptable quality across 3D design, architecture, video, and other domains. The previous benchmark leader scored 4.17% eight months ago, meaning the frontier has quadrupled in less than a year, with Fable 5 roughly double the next model (Opus 4.8 at 8.3%). Human evaluators remain necessary for assessing absolute capability, as an automated AI judge overstated newer models' performance by 2–3 times despite correctly ranking them relative to each other.
