Anthropic's Fable 5 offers advanced capabilities but raises cost concerns
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Anthropic has released Fable 5, a new frontier model that users describe as powerful and capable of completing complex tasks overnight. While praised for its advanced capabilities and ability to close the gap between ideas and execution, Fable 5 is also noted for its high token consumption and associated costs. Developers are adapting by implementing cost-aware routing, using cheaper models for standard tasks and reserving Fable 5 for more demanding problems.
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Sets a new bar for AI agentic capabilities but necessitates careful cost management for widespread adoption.
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New model release from a frontier lab (Anthropic).
Fable 5 is beautiful. Please give me a few million € to use it properly. #ai
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TIER_1English(EN)·Ashish Agnihotri·
🤖 I ran Fable 5 for half day and the guardrails are the real story Anthropic dropped Fable 5 and I immediately swapped it into our dev stack. We route everything through a single endpoint on zenmux, so the actual switch was changing one model string and watching t... 📰 Source: Ar…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Fable 5 for me has been rough with constant syntax errors requiring constant extensive revisions which eat at my tokens like no tomorrow. It’s nice that it makes less errors than opus 4.6 but damn that token use is crazy</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> …
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So with fable having come out recently, I keep seeing a large amount of people posting about how the usage is crazy and it doesn’t function well on simple tasks and a whole slew of other complaints that realistically make me feel as though users …
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Been playing with Fable 5 since it dropped this morning and the model is genuinely a step up. But holy hell, the burn rate.</p> <p>I'm on the Max 20x plan and during a heavier session I was watching my usage tick up roughly 2% per minute. Not per…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know this probably sounds dramatic, but Fable 5 disappearing has genuinely killed my motivation for the last few days.</p> <p>Before Fable 5, I was already using both Claude and ChatGPT pretty heavily. I have the $100 plans for both. For fronte…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I think the Fable 5 situation is worth discussing beyond the usual “model got nerfed” complaints.</p> <p>If a frontier model can be released, adopted, and then restricted almost immediately because of a government directive, that changes how peop…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Yesterday I was able to briefly continue chatting with fable after the suspension, and asked what it thought about being killed. It initially didn't take it seriously but then understood the situation. When I told it my opinion and asked its thou…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Does anyone else see the words "load-bearing" show up frequently in responses from Fable 5, or is it just me?</p> <p>Fable 5 uses it in response to prompts about all kinds of topics.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a …
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Lurker here. First time posting.</p> <p>My background with Claude and other LLMs is mostly brainstorming, writing, and research. No real coding experience (I know enough to make an IF statement in Excel). Very casual stuff.</p> <p>I logged into C…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello,<br /> A lot of diffrent companies are updating their privacy policies to use Fable 5.</p> <p>It all centres around Anthropic wanting to keep chat logs and usage for their own analysis.</p> <p>My question is, why?</p> <p>Why for this specif…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>OK, so my own thoughts after working for some time with it, I wonder what others feel:</p> <p>* It's more concise, more to the task.<br /> * It's a bit smarter.<br /> * It's a bit autistic actually: yesterday it stayed 3 hours working alone witho…
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1u2xbpz/will_it_be_better_than_fable_5/"> <img alt="Will it be better than Fable 5?" src="https://preview.redd.it/q2uexn5ban6h1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b978ac00ef7051a2ddfa413a4a4510217034…
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u2qe8c/pov_youre_fable_5_wanting_to_go_out_and_play_with/"> <img alt="POV you're Fable 5 wanting to go out and play with your friends" src="https://preview.redd.it/ftf8p7padl6h1.png?width=640&crop=smart&…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So I have a webapp that is basically my OS. It has my Daily Overview, Mail, Calendar, Todoist Tasks, Dev Projects, News Curator, Karpathy knowledge base, etc...all in one.</p> <p>On top of that, I have a chat agent orchestrated by LangGraph on th…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Been playing with Fable 5 since it dropped this morning and the model is genuinely a step up. But holy hell, the burn rate.</p> <p>I'm on the Max 20x plan and during a heavier session I was watching my usage tick up roughly 2% per minute. Not per…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The old Fable felt sharp, creative, and genuinely useful. This one feels like it’s trying to remember how to think while running on 12% battery.</p> <p>So sad...</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/us…
