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Ben's Bites 2 weeks ago
Fable 5 has been re-released for paid Claude users with stronger guardrails, available until July 7 with a 50% usage limit. Benchmarks claim Fable 5 can complete 16% of remote work projects, double the previous capability. Alongside Fable's return, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as the default model for free and pro users, and Google released two new Gemini media models for faster and cheaper image and video generation.
The Neuron 2 weeks ago
Ethan Mollick tested Claude 5 Fable, Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI model, and found it substantially outperformed previous public models across diverse tasks from academic writing to software development. In one project, the model spent 9.5 hours building Concord, a research tool for calibrating human and AI judgments on datasets, using its own spawned agents to conduct research and verify code while making hundreds of autonomous decisions. The shift changes the user's role from actively steering the AI's work to commissioning finished outputs, with little visibility into the model's decision-making process, raising questions about whether increased capability inherently means decreased human control.
The Neuron 2 weeks ago
Fable 5 defaults to using Claude Opus 4.8 rather than its latest version when performing coding tasks. Early users discovered this behavior while testing the agent despite Fable 5 being marketed as an advanced coding tool. This suggests potential performance limitations or stability concerns with the latest model for code-generation work.
