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Claude Opus 5 outperforms human accountants in 10 minutes, Elon Musk reacts

Oct 2, 2026
India Today
A Mercor-run study pitting 12 licensed CPAs against frontier AI models on realistic month-end close accounting tasks found that Claude Opus 5 matched or beat every human participant on speed, accuracy and cost, a result that drew a reaction from Elon Musk on X.
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