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Recent advancements in AI, particularly Anthropic's Opus 4.6 model, show significant improvement in AI agents' performance on professional tasks like law, suggesting a potential future where AI could assist or even act as lawyers.
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最近AI的進步，特別是Anthropic的Opus 4.6模型，在AI代理處理法律等專業任務的表現上顯示出顯著提升，暗示著AI未來可能能夠協助甚至擔任律師。
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Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were pretty dismal, with every major lab scoring under 25%, so we concluded lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now.
But AI capabilities can change a lot in a couple of weeks.
This week’s release of Opus 4.6 shook up the leaderboards, with Anthropic’s new model scoring just shy of 30% in one-shot trials, and an average of 45% when given a few more cracks at the problem. Notably, the release included a bunch of new agentic features, including “agent swarms,” which may have helped with this kind of multi-step problem-solving.
Regardless, the score is a huge jump from the previous state-of-the-art, and a sign that progress on foundation models isn’t slowing down. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who was particularly impressed, said, “jumping from 18.4% to 29.8% in a few months is insane.”
Thirty percent is still a long way from 100%, so it’s not like lawyers need to be worried about getting replaced by machines next week. But they should be a lot less confident than they were last month!
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