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Luxobench — AI Models Put to Work Building a Lamp

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A hardware-design benchmark comparing Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra through interactive desk-lamp builds.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-13 issue.

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Luxobench compares two proposed routes from the same lamp-building prompt rather than treating an AI response as finished engineering. The Fable 5.1 path names 18 parts, including servos, a display, camera, and Raspberry Pi 3 A+, while the GPT-6 Astra path reduces the visible list to six components centered on a pan/tilt camera-and-light kit and Raspberry Pi 4. Both routes expose estimated parts costs and lead times, but the page labels the hardware untested.

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