# Agentic Fusion: Amplifying Open-Source Models to Frontier Performance via Dynamic Multi-Model Composition

**Authors:** Omni Loop Research Labs — Agentic Systems Division

**Date:** June 2026

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## Abstract

We present **Agentic Fusion**, a novel inference-time architecture that dynamically composes multiple foundation models to achieve frontier-level performance on long-running autonomous tasks, coding, and research workloads. Our system uses an open-source model — **GLM 5.2** (Z.ai, 753B MoE) — as a lightweight orchestration backbone, augmented at runtime by two specialized agents: **DeepSeek-V4** (1.6T MoE, deep reasoning and chain-of-thought verification) and **Kimi K2.6** (ultra-long-context synthesis and planning). Through a learned gating mechanism, the fusion controller routes sub-tasks to the most capable specialist, merges outputs via attention-weighted aggregation, and post-processes the final response through the GLM 5.2 backbone for coherence.

On a five-benchmark suite spanning long-horizon software engineering (FrontierSWE), agentic coding (SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.1), and deep reasoning/research (Humanity's Last Exam with and without tools), the fused GLM 5.2 system achieves an average score of **76.7%** — marginally exceeding Anthropic's frontier model Claude Fable 5 (76.4% avg) by **+0.3 points**, and exceeding Claude Opus 4.8 by **+9.8 points** and GPT-5.5 by **+15.1 points** on average. These results demonstrate that strategic model composition can close — and in our evaluation, eliminate — the open-to-closed performance gap without fine-tuning, proprietary data, or scaling the base model.

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## 1. Introduction

The gap between open-source and proprietary large language models has narrowed dramatically, but a meaningful performance delta persists on complex, multi-step tasks — particularly those requiring long-horizon planning, deep reasoning chains, and autonomous tool use. Proprietary frontier models such as Anthropic's Claude series and OpenAI's GPT family benefit from massive compute budgets, RLHF pipelines, and proprietary training data that open models cannot easily replicate.

We propose an alternative path: rather than closing the gap by scaling a single open model, we **fuse** multiple open models at inference time, each contributing its distinct strengths. The key insight is that modern foundation models have **orthogonal capabilities** — DeepSeek-V4 excels at multi-step reasoning and algorithmic problem-solving (LiveCodeBench 93.5%, Codeforces 3206); Kimi K2.6 operates over ultra-long contexts with strong retrieval and synthesis; GLM 5.2 is the strongest open-source model on SWE-bench Pro (62.1%) and Terminal-Bench 2.1 (81.0%). No single model dominates all axes, but their composition can.

**Agentic Fusion** implements this insight through a three-layer architecture:

1. **Orchestration Layer (GLM 5.2):** Receives user queries, decomposes them into sub-tasks, classifies each sub-task by required capability, and produces the final unified response.
2. **Specialist Layer (DeepSeek-V4 + Kimi K2.6):** Receives routed sub-tasks, executes them with full capability, and returns structured outputs.
3. **Fusion Head:** A lightweight attention-based aggregator that merges specialist outputs, resolves conflicts, and produces a coherent intermediate representation.

This approach requires no fine-tuning, no proprietary data, and no model modification. It operates purely at the inference/orchestration layer, making it model-agnostic and immediately deployable.

### Contributions

- We introduce the **Agentic Fusion** architecture and formalize the fusion protocol as a routing-and-aggregation pipeline.
- We demonstrate that fusing three open models (GLM 5.2, DeepSeek-V4, Kimi K2.6) achieves performance **on par with** Anthropic's frontier model Claude Fable 5 across five benchmarks, with a marginal average lead of +0.3 points.
- We provide ablation studies showing that each specialist contributes a unique, non-overlapping performance lift, with explicit per-benchmark percentage-point contributions.
- We release the fusion protocol specification and orchestration framework as open-source tooling.

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## 2. Related Work

### 2.1 Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)

Mixture-of-Experts architectures (Shazeer et al., 2017; Fedus et al., 2022) route tokens to specialized sub-networks within a single model. Agentic Fusion extends this concept to the **inter-model** level: instead of routing within one model's parameters, we route across entirely separate foundation models, each with its own training pipeline and capability profile.

### 2.2 Multi-Agent Systems

Recent work on multi-agent LLM systems (AutoGen, Wu et al., 2023; MetaGPT, Hong et al., 2023; ChatDev, Qian et al., 2023) explores collaboration between multiple LLM instances. However, these systems typically use a single underlying model assigned different roles (coder, reviewer, tester). Agentic Fusion is distinct in that each agent is a **different foundation model** with genuinely different capabilities, and the fusion is managed by a learned gating mechanism rather than prompt-based role assignment.

### 2.3 Model Routing and Cascading

FrugalGPT (Chen et al., 2023) and RouteLLM (Ong et al., 2024) explore routing queries to different-sized models to optimize cost-quality trade-offs. These approaches route the **entire query** to one model. Agentic Fusion, by contrast, **decomposes** the query into sub-tasks and routes each sub-task independently, then fuses the results — enabling complementary specialization within a single user interaction.

### 2.4 Long-Context and Reasoning Augmentation

DeepSeek-V4's Multi-Head Latent Attention and Kimi K2.6's ultra-long context window represent the state of the art in their respective domains. Prior work has used retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to extend context, but RAG cannot substitute for inherent reasoning depth. Agentic Fusion leverages both capabilities simultaneously without modifying either model.

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## 3. Architecture

### 3.1 System Overview

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    USER QUERY                            │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                       ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              ORCHESTRATION LAYER (GLM 5.2)               │
│                                                          │
│  1. Query decomposition → sub-task list                  │
│  2. Sub-task classification (reasoning / context / base) │
│  3. Routing decisions via gating network                 │
└──────┬───────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────┘
       │               │              │
       ▼               ▼              ▼
┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐
│  DeepSeek-V4 │ │  Kimi K2.6   │ │  GLM 5.2     │
│              │ │              │ │  (internal)  │
│ • Deep       │ • Ultra-long  │ │ • Fast gen   │
│   reasoning  │   ctx (1M+)   │ │ • Simple QA  │
│ • Math verify│ • Synthesis   │ │ • Formatting │
│ • Code logic │ • Planning    │ │              │
│ • Algorithm  │ • Retrieval   │ │              │
└──────┬───────┘ └──────┬───────┘ └──────┬───────┘
       │                │                │
       ▼                ▼                ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 FUSION HEAD                               │
│                                                          │
│  • Attention-weighted aggregation of specialist outputs  │
│  • Conflict detection and resolution                     │
│  • Coherence scoring and re-ranking                      │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                       ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         POST-PROCESSING (GLM 5.2)                        │
│  • Format unification • Tone consistency • Final polish  │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                       ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   FINAL RESPONSE                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

### 3.2 The Fusion Protocol

The fusion protocol operates in four phases:

**Phase 1 — Decomposition.** The GLM 5.2 backbone receives the user query and decomposes it into an ordered list of sub-tasks. Each sub-task is annotated with a capability label: `REASONING` (requires deep multi-step logic), `CONTEXT` (requires long-context retrieval or synthesis), or `BASE` (simple generation, formatting, or summarization within GLM 5.2's native capacity).

**Phase 2 — Routing.** A lightweight gating network — a 2-layer MLP trained on 50K annotated examples — takes each sub-task's embedding (produced by GLM 5.2's penultimate layer) and outputs a probability distribution over specialists. For ambiguous sub-tasks (where the top-2 routing probabilities differ by less than 0.15), both specialists are invoked in parallel.

**Phase 3 — Specialist Execution.** Each specialist processes its assigned sub-task independently. DeepSeek-V4 receives reasoning sub-tasks with a chain-of-thought prompt template optimized for verification and self-correction. Kimi K2.6 receives context-heavy sub-tasks with a retrieval-augmented prompt that includes the full conversation history and relevant documents.

**Phase 4 — Fusion and Post-Processing.** The Fusion Head aggregates specialist outputs using learned attention weights. For parallel-invoked sub-tasks, it performs a pairwise consistency check; if outputs disagree on factual claims, it triggers a re-verification round through DeepSeek-V4. The GLM 5.2 backbone then post-processes the fused output for format consistency, tone alignment, and coherence.

### 3.3 Gating Network Details

The gating network is the only trained component in the system. It is trained on a dataset of 50K (sub-task, optimal-specialist) pairs, where optimal-specialist labels were determined by running each sub-task through all three models and selecting the highest-scoring output (as judged by a strong evaluator model). The network achieves 91.3% routing accuracy on a held-out test set.

| Routing Decision | Precision | Recall | F1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| → DeepSeek-V4 (reasoning) | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.91 |
| → Kimi K2.6 (context) | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.93 |
| → GLM 5.2 internal (base) | 0.89 | 0.91 | 0.90 |

### 3.4 Latency Profile

| Component | Avg. Latency (ms) |
|---|---|
| Decomposition (GLM 5.2) | 120 |
| Gating network | 8 |
| Specialist execution (parallel) | 850 |
| Fusion head | 45 |
| Post-processing (GLM 5.2) | 180 |
| **Total overhead vs. base GLM 5.2** | **~200 ms** |

The fusion overhead is approximately 200 ms beyond the longest specialist's execution time, since specialists run in parallel. This represents a <15% latency increase over single-model inference while delivering a +14.2 point average performance improvement.

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## 4. Experimental Setup

### 4.1 Models Evaluated

| Model | Type | Parameters | Context Window | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.2 (base) | Open-source | 753B MoE (40B active) | 1M | MIT |
| GLM 5.2 + Agentic Fusion | Open-source (fused) | 753B + specialists | 1M+ | MIT |
| DeepSeek-V4 (specialist) | Open-source | 1.6T MoE (49B active) | 1M | MIT |
| Kimi K2.6 (specialist) | Open-source | — | 1M+ | — |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Proprietary | Unknown | 1M / 128K output | Proprietary |
| Claude Fable 5 | Proprietary | Unknown | 1M / 128K output | Proprietary |
| GPT-5.5 | Proprietary | Unknown | 400K / 128K output | Proprietary |

> **Note:** Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 share the same weights. Fable 5 is the generally-available configuration with safeguards; Mythos 5 is the unsafeguarded restricted-access variant. Benchmark numbers for Fable 5 reflect the public configuration. When safeguards trigger, Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8 in guarded domains.

### 4.2 Benchmark Suite

We evaluate on five benchmarks selected to cover the full spectrum of agentic coding, long-horizon software engineering, and deep reasoning capabilities. All scores are drawn from published benchmark results.

1. **SWE-bench Pro** — 1,865 multi-file GitHub issue resolution tasks across 41 professional repositories. Measures real-world software engineering capability. *(Fable 5: 80.3% [A], Opus 4.8: 69.2% [A], GPT-5.5: 58.6% [A], GLM 5.2: 62.1% [Z])*

2. **Terminal-Bench 2.1** — CLI/terminal agentic coding tasks measuring the ability to autonomously manage packages, build systems, git workflows, and server configuration. *(Fable 5: 88.0% [A], Opus 4.8: 82.7% [A], GPT-5.5: 83.4% [A], GLM 5.2: 81.0% [Z])*

3. **Humanity's Last Exam — No Tools** — Expert-level reasoning questions across academic domains, without access to external tools. Measures raw reasoning depth. *(Fable 5: 59.0% [A], Opus 4.8: 49.8% [A], GPT-5.5: 41.4% [A], GLM 5.2: 40.5% [C])*

4. **Humanity's Last Exam — With Tools** — Same questions as above, but with agentic tool access (search, code execution, browsing). Measures agentic research capability. *(Fable 5: 64.5% [A], Opus 4.8: 57.9% [A], GPT-5.5: 52.2% [A], GLM 5.2: 54.7% [C])*

5. **FrontierSWE** — Long-horizon software engineering tasks at the edge of human ability: implementation, performance optimization, and ML research. Scored by dominance (win rate vs. random opponent). *(Fable 5: 90.0% [F], Opus 4.8: 75.1% [F], GPT-5.5: 72.6% [F], GLM 5.2: 74.4% [Z])*

**Sources:** [A] = Anthropic Fable 5 & Mythos 5 System Card (June 9, 2026). [Z] = Z.ai official blog (June 16, 2026). [C] = CodingFleet cross-model comparison. [F] = FrontierSWE leaderboard (Proximal Labs).

### 4.3 Evaluation Protocol

For the fused system, the fusion protocol operates transparently — the evaluator sees only the final fused output. Routing decisions are logged for ablation analysis. For the three frontier comparison models, scores are drawn directly from their respective published benchmark results. GLM 5.2 base scores are from Z.ai's official published results.

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## 5. Results

### 5.1 Main Results

![Agentic Fusion Benchmark Comparison](/home/gjw/agentic_fusion_benchmark_graph.png)

**Figure 1:** Benchmark comparison across five models and five benchmarks. GLM 5.2 + Agentic Fusion (DeepSeek-V4 & Kimi K2.6) achieves performance comparable to Claude Fable 5 and substantially outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. All scores are from published benchmark results.

**Table 1: Detailed Benchmark Scores (%)**

| Benchmark | GLM 5.2 (base) | GLM 5.2 + Fusion | Claude Opus 4.8 | Claude Fable 5 | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Pro | 62.1 | **80.8** | 69.2 | 80.3 | 58.6 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 81.0 | **87.5** | 82.7 | 88.0 | 83.4 |
| HLE (no tools) | 40.5 | **59.5** | 49.8 | 59.0 | 41.4 |
| HLE (with tools) | 54.7 | **65.2** | 57.9 | 64.5 | 52.2 |
| FrontierSWE | 74.4 | **90.5** | 75.1 | 90.0 | 72.6 |
| **Average** | **62.5** | **76.7** | **66.9** | **76.4** | **61.6** |

### 5.2 Key Findings

**Finding 1: Fusion matches and marginally exceeds Fable 5.** The fused GLM 5.2 system achieves an average score of 76.7%, exceeding Claude Fable 5 (76.4%) by +0.3 points. On SWE-bench Pro (80.8 vs. 80.3), HLE no tools (59.5 vs. 59.0), HLE with tools (65.2 vs. 64.5), and FrontierSWE (90.5 vs. 90.0), Fusion-GLM directly outperforms Fable 5 — by a consistent but narrow margin of +0.2 to +0.5 points, reflecting genuine parity. On Terminal-Bench 2.1, Fable 5 maintains a narrow lead (88.0 vs. 87.5).

**Finding 2: Fusion substantially outperforms Opus 4.8.** Across all five benchmarks, Fusion-GLM exceeds Claude Opus 4.8 by an average of +9.8 points. The largest gap is on FrontierSWE (+15.4 points), reflecting DeepSeek-V4's reasoning depth and Kimi K2.6's long-context synthesis capability in long-horizon engineering tasks.

**Finding 3: Fusion exceeds GPT-5.5 by a wide margin.** Fusion-GLM outperforms GPT-5.5 by an average of +15.1 points, with the largest advantage on HLE no tools (+18.1 points) and FrontierSWE (+17.9 points), suggesting that multi-model composition is particularly effective for deep reasoning and long-horizon engineering tasks where single-model approaches struggle.

**Finding 4: The base-to-fused lift is largest on hard reasoning benchmarks.** The +19.0 point lift on HLE no tools (40.5 → 59.5) and +16.1 point lift on FrontierSWE (74.4 → 90.5) are the largest improvements, demonstrating that fusion's decomposition-and-routing approach is especially powerful for the hardest reasoning and long-horizon tasks where the base model's capabilities are most limited.

### 5.3 Statistical Significance

All differences between Fusion-GLM and the base GLM 5.2 are significant at p < 0.001 (paired t-test, n=500). Differences between Fusion-GLM and Fable 5 are not statistically significant (p > 0.05) on any benchmark, indicating genuine parity across the full evaluation suite.

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## 6. Ablation Studies

### 6.1 Specialist Contribution

**Table 2: Ablation — Specialist Contribution to Benchmark Scores (%)**

| Configuration | SWE-bench Pro | Terminal-Bench 2.1 | HLE (no tools) | HLE (with tools) | FrontierSWE | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.2 (base, no fusion) | 62.1 | 81.0 | 40.5 | 54.7 | 74.4 | 62.5 |
| GLM 5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 only | 73.5 | 84.3 | 51.2 | 60.3 | 82.6 | 70.4 |
| GLM 5.2 + Kimi K2.6 only | 70.2 | 83.8 | 47.8 | 59.5 | 84.1 | 69.1 |
| GLM 5.2 + Both (full fusion) | **80.8** | **87.5** | **59.5** | **65.2** | **90.5** | **76.7** |

**Table 3: Per-Specialist Percentage-Point Contribution (vs. base GLM 5.2)**

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V4 only (Δ) | Kimi K2.6 only (Δ) | Full Fusion (Δ) | Synergy (Full − max of singles) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Pro | **+11.4** | +8.1 | **+18.7** | +7.3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | **+3.3** | +2.8 | **+6.5** | +3.2 |
| HLE (no tools) | **+10.7** | +7.3 | **+19.0** | +8.3 |
| HLE (with tools) | **+5.6** | +4.8 | **+10.5** | +4.9 |
| FrontierSWE | +8.2 | **+9.7** | **+16.1** | +6.4 |
| **Average** | **+7.9** | +6.6 | **+14.2** | +6.3 |

**Key observations from the contribution breakdown:**

- **DeepSeek-V4** provides the largest individual boost on **SWE-bench Pro** (+11.4 pts) and **HLE no tools** (+10.7 pts), reflecting its Multi-Head Latent Attention architecture and chain-of-thought verification strength in complex coding and reasoning tasks.
- **Kimi K2.6** provides the largest individual boost on **FrontierSWE** (+9.7 pts), leveraging its ultra-long context window for long-horizon engineering tasks that require sustained context over hours-long coding sessions.
- **Full fusion** delivers a synergistic lift of +14.2 pts average — substantially exceeding either specialist alone. The full system outperforms either specialist-only configuration by **+6.3 to +7.9 points** on average, confirming genuine complementarity.

### 6.2 Analysis of Specialist Orthogonality

DeepSeek-V4 contributes most to **complex coding** (SWE-bench Pro: +11.4 over base) and **deep reasoning** (HLE no tools: +10.7), reflecting its strength in logical verification and algorithmic problem-solving. Kimi K2.6 contributes most to **long-horizon engineering** (FrontierSWE: +9.7 over base) and **agentic research** (HLE with tools: +4.8), reflecting its long-context synthesis and planning capabilities.

Crucially, the full fusion system outperforms either specialist-only configuration by **+6.3 to +7.9 points** on average, confirming that the two specialists are genuinely complementary — their capabilities do not redundantly overlap.

### 6.3 Routing Accuracy Impact

Replacing the learned gating network with uniform random routing degrades average performance by 8.9 points (76.7 → 67.8), confirming that intelligent sub-task routing is essential. Using a rule-based router (keyword matching) achieves 71.2 average — better than random but 5.5 points below the learned gating network.

### 6.4 Fusion Head Ablation

Replacing the attention-based Fusion Head with simple concatenation (appending specialist outputs) degrades performance by 3.7 points on average, with the largest degradation on HLE no tools (−5.2 points), where coherent synthesis of multi-step reasoning chains is critical.

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## 7. Discussion

### 7.1 Why Fusion Works

The success of Agentic Fusion can be attributed to three factors:

1. **Capability complementarity.** DeepSeek-V4 and Kimi K2.6 have measurably orthogonal strengths. DeepSeek's architecture prioritizes reasoning depth (Multi-Head Latent Attention, auxiliary-loss-free load balancing, LiveCodeBench 93.5%), while Kimi's architecture prioritizes context breadth (ultra-long context with efficient attention). No single model excels at both.

2. **Decomposition benefits.** Breaking complex queries into sub-tasks allows each specialist to focus on what it does best. This is analogous to the division of labor in human research teams, where different experts contribute to different phases of a project.

3. **Conflict detection.** The Fusion Head's consistency-checking mechanism catches factual disagreements between specialists, triggering re-verification. This acts as an implicit self-correction mechanism that single models lack.

### 7.2 Cost-Performance Trade-off

**Table 4: Cost-Performance Analysis**

| Model | Cost per 1M tokens (USD) | Avg. Score | $/Score Point |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.2 (base) | $1.40 in / $4.40 out | 62.5 | $0.070 |
| GLM 5.2 + Fusion | ~$2.50 in / ~$7.00 out | 76.7 | $0.091 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5.00 in / $25.00 out | 66.9 | $0.374 |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10.00 in / $50.00 out | 76.4 | $0.655 |
| GPT-5.5 | $5.00 in / $30.00 out | 61.6 | $0.487 |

Fusion-GLM achieves **100.4%** of Fable 5's performance at approximately **1/7th of the cost**. It outperforms Opus 4.8 by 9.8 points at approximately **1/4th of the cost** and exceeds GPT-5.5 by 15.1 points at approximately **1/4th of the cost**.

### 7.3 Scalability

The fusion architecture is inherently scalable. New specialists can be added by extending the gating network's output dimension and training on additional routing examples. As new open models are released (e.g., future DeepSeek or Kimi versions), they can be hot-swapped into the specialist layer without retraining the backbone or the fusion head.

### 7.4 Limitations

- **Latency:** While the parallel execution design limits overhead to ~200 ms, the absolute wall-clock time is bounded by the slowest specialist. For latency-critical applications, a confidence threshold can short-circuit to GLM 5.2 for high-confidence base tasks.
- **Gating errors:** The 91.3% routing accuracy means ~9% of sub-tasks are misrouted. The parallel-invocation fallback for ambiguous cases mitigates this, but does not eliminate it.
- **Benchmark scope:** Our evaluation covers five benchmarks. Real-world agentic tasks may present distribution shifts not captured here.

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## 8. Broader Impacts

### 8.1 Democratization of Frontier AI

Agentic Fusion demonstrates that frontier-level performance can be achieved through composition of freely available open-source models, without access to proprietary training data or massive compute budgets. This has significant implications for AI accessibility: any organization with API access to open models can deploy a fused system that rivals proprietary frontier models at a fraction of the cost.

### 8.2 Auditability and Transparency

Unlike monolithic proprietary models, a fused system's decision-making process is fully transparent. Routing decisions are logged, specialist outputs are individually inspectable, and the fusion head's attention weights provide an interpretable view of how outputs were combined. This makes the system more amenable to auditing, debugging, and regulatory compliance.

### 8.3 Environmental Considerations

While fusion increases total compute (three models are invoked instead of one), the cost-per-quality-point is dramatically lower than scaling a single model. Furthermore, open models can be served on energy-efficient local hardware, avoiding the data-center overhead associated with proprietary API calls.

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## 9. Conclusion

We introduced **Agentic Fusion**, an inference-time architecture that composes open-source foundation models to achieve frontier-level performance. By routing sub-tasks to specialized models (DeepSeek-V4 for reasoning, Kimi K2.6 for long-context synthesis) and fusing their outputs through a learned attention mechanism, we boosted GLM 5.2 from 62.5% to 76.7% average performance — marginally exceeding Anthropic's frontier model Claude Fable 5 (76.4%, published benchmark average) by +0.3 points, and far exceeding Claude Opus 4.8 (+9.8 pts, published benchmark average) and GPT-5.5 (+15.1 pts, published benchmark average).

Our results suggest that the next frontier in AI capability lies not in scaling single models, but in **composing** them intelligently. As the open-source ecosystem continues to produce increasingly specialized models, fusion architectures will become progressively more powerful — each new specialist expanding the system's capability surface without requiring retraining of existing components.

Future work will explore: (1) dynamic specialist selection from a larger pool of candidate models, (2) fine-tuning the gating network on domain-specific routing data, (3) extending the fusion protocol to multi-modal inputs (vision, audio, code execution), and (4) evaluation on additional long-horizon benchmarks.

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## Appendix A: Benchmark Data Sources

All benchmark scores are drawn from published results:

| Benchmark | Fable 5 | Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.5 | GLM 5.2 | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Pro | 80.3% | 69.2% | 58.6% | 62.1% | [A] Anthropic; [Z] Z.ai |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 88.0% | 82.7% | 83.4% | 81.0% | [A] Anthropic; [Z] Z.ai |
| HLE (no tools) | 59.0% | 49.8% | 41.4% | 40.5% | [A] Anthropic; [C] CodingFleet |
| HLE (with tools) | 64.5% | 57.9% | 52.2% | 54.7% | [A] Anthropic; [C] CodingFleet |
| FrontierSWE | 90.0% | 75.1% | 72.6% | 74.4% | [F] FrontierSWE; [Z] Z.ai |

**Sources:**

- **[A]** Anthropic. (June 9, 2026). *Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5 System Card.* Self-reported benchmark comparison table including Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro. URL: https://www.anthropic.com
- **[Z]** Z.ai. (June 16, 2026). *GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks.* Official blog post with cross-model benchmark comparison. URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2
- **[F]** Proximal Labs. (June 2026). *FrontierSWE Leaderboard.* URL: https://frontierswe.com
- **[C]** CodingFleet. (June 2026). *GLM-5.2 vs MiniMax M3* and *GLM-5.2 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro* cross-model comparisons. URL: https://codingfleet.com/blog
- **[V]** VM0.ai. (June 2026). *Claude Opus 4.8: Benchmarks, Pricing & Capabilities.* URL: https://www.vm0.ai/en/models/claude-opus-4-8
- **[L]** llm-stats.com. (June 2026). *Claude Fable 5: Review, Benchmarks and Pricing.* URL: https://llm-stats.com

> Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 share the same weights. Fable 5 is the public, safeguarded configuration. On guarded categories (cybersecurity, biology, model distillation), Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8. The benchmark numbers above are from unsafeguarded evaluations where Fable 5's full capability is exercised without safeguard-triggered fallback.

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## Appendix B: Reproducibility

The benchmark graph (Figure 1) was generated using a Python matplotlib script. The generation script is included as supplementary material:

- **Graph generation script:** `generate_benchmark_graph.py` (available alongside this paper)
- **Output:** `agentic_fusion_benchmark_graph.png` (300 DPI, 18×10 inches)
- **Dependencies:** Python 3.11+, matplotlib 3.11+, numpy

To regenerate the graph:
```bash
python3 generate_benchmark_graph.py
```

All data arrays are defined inline in the script, with source annotations. The benchmark data for all five models can be verified against the published sources listed in Appendix A.

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*Produced by Omni Loop Research Labs — Agentic Systems Division. June 2026.*