Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5, a New Tier Above Opus
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 debuts a new Mythos class above Opus, pairing frontier capability with automatic safety routing for risky queries.
Jun 9, 2026

Search
8 stories for“claude fable 5”
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 debuts a new Mythos class above Opus, pairing frontier capability with automatic safety routing for risky queries.
Jun 9, 2026

A jailbreak report and a same-day export order took Claude Fable 5 offline for weeks, testing how fast a frontier AI company can lose and regain access.
Jul 1, 2026

Anthropic's new flagship matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work at a fifth of the delay and a fifth less cost per token, and beats it outright on agentic coding, computer use and chart reading. Input is 4 dollars, output 20, a fifth cheaper than Opus 5.
Sep 24, 2026

Claude Mythos 5 strips Fable 5's safety classifiers for vetted users only, forcing a fresh argument over who gets to use AI without a leash.
Jul 8, 2026

Released 3 September, Astra found genuine security flaws in testing and posted OpenAI's best-ever reasoning scores, but Artificial Analysis still ranks Claude Fable 5.1 ahead of it on broad intelligence and coding. Pricing matches Fable at 10 and 50 dollars.
Sep 24, 2026

Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model with different safeguards. One is generally available. The other is restricted to a set of American organisations through trusted access programmes, for work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.
Sep 1, 2026

Anthropic priced its newest model exactly where the previous one sat, then claimed near-flagship results. The pitch is aimed squarely at the mid-difficulty work that fills enterprise queues.
Aug 3, 2026

Anthropic's new Opus model targets long-running coding and professional workflows with a 1-million-token context window, adaptive effort and the same API price as Opus 4.8.
Jul 24, 2026
