Comment by JoshGlazebrook
6 days ago
The fact that we are coming up on a month of Fable being unavailable with essentially zero actual signal from Anthropic around when it may be back is crazy to me. Yet still we have these random new products coming out?
https://xcancel.com/AnthropicAI/status/2070665903440871779
> Anthropic @AnthropicAI Jun 27, 2026 · 12:29 AM UTC
> Since June 12, we’ve been working closely with the US government to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure.
> We’re restoring access for these organizations quickly, and we’re continuing to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again.
This thing is also surprising considering Fable was not allowed to answer any biology questions.
I mean the company has like 3k employees or more right? Lots of them are just working on more applied AI use cases that don't require frontier AI just the right integrations and structure etc.
Opus 4.8/ GPT 5.6 level models with the right workflows/ data/ access are still good enough to do huge amounts of economically valueable work.
This plus it's entirely plausible their employees have access to Fable or their own other pre-released models internally. Other than the perks you mentioned they've got excellent distribution too.