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OpenAI's Sol 5.6 Outperforms Anthropic's Opus and Fable Models

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A user reported that OpenAI's Codex 5.6 Sol significantly outperformed Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 on a complex product issue, solving it in two hours while Anthropic's models struggled for weeks. The user expressed disappointment with Anthropic's latest frontier models, citing perceived unreliability and performance limitations, possibly due to compute constraints and heavy quantization. This experience led the user to cancel their Anthropic subscription and praise OpenAI for its competitive offering. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential performance gaps between leading AI models, influencing user adoption and competition.

RANK_REASON User comparison of two AI models, not a direct release from a frontier lab.

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OpenAI's Sol 5.6 Outperforms Anthropic's Opus and Fable Models

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Comprehensive_Rush66 ·

    Codex 5.6 Sol solved in 2-hours what I asked Opus 4.8 / Fable 5 to do over weeks.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I asked Opus to analyze why it failed over weeks and weeks of work when OpenAI's 5.6 Sol (Max) solved my product issue in 2-hours of running straight through and fixing UI UX issues along the way. Opus below on why it failed to do what Codex / So…

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