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Claude Fable 5

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Re: Claude Fable 5

#193

the quality of discussion on HN has gone to shit, i miss when model released used to have actual informed takes from people that used them or substantive discussion about the system card

Nothing here is new, it is the thing we have been talking about for a while but now with guardrails.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#195
Fable 5's safety measures flagged this message for cybersecurity or biology topics. They may flag safe, normal content as well. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capability in other areas sooner, and we're working to refine them. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15363606 ⎿ Tip: You can configure model switch behavior in /config

biology? what the heck?

Re: Claude Fable 5

#196
Anthropic has again changed the set of benchmarks they use[0]. This time they have also moved all benchmark scores to the PDF. At a glance it looks like it gains about ~5-10% over other models. the speed is about the same as opus >=4.5, sonnet 4.5, and double the speed of opus
                          Mythos 5 Fable 5 MythosPrev Opus 4.8 GPT-5.5 Gemini 3.1 Pro
  SWE-bench Pro             80.3       80        77.8       69.2      58.6       54.2
  SWE-bench Ver             95.5       95        93.9       88.6       -         80.6
  Terminal-Bench            88.0      84.3        -         82.7      83.4         -
  BrowseComp (Single-Agent) 88.0       -        87.9       84.3      84.4       85.9
  BrowseComp (Multi-Agent)  93.3       -          -         88.5       -           -
  HLE (No tools)            59.0      -       56.8      49.8      41.4        44.4
  HLE (Tools)                64.5      -        64.7     57.9      52.2       51.4
  CharXiv Reasoning (No tools) 88.9       -         86.2       80.5       -         -
  CharXiv Reasoning (Tools)    93.5       -         92.5      89.9      -         -
  BioMystery Bench (Human)     83.9       -       82.6     80.4       -         -
  BioMystery Bench (Hard)    46.1       -         29.6     40.0       -         -
  OSWorld-Verified          85.0      85.0       85.4       83.4      78.7      76.2*
  CritPt                     28.6       -       20.9       27.1      17.7       -
  ArxivMath                  78.5      68.7       71.8       71.5      64.0       -
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312633

Edit: Also in the system card... "we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design).

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Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts, these safeguards will not be visible to the user."

Re: Claude Fable 5

#197
post #83

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill. From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, ti…

You are right; all I noticed was a big-time slowdown. They increased the quota, but I cannot even reach the end of the day with these speeds. .NET coding somehow improved, though.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#198
post #53

> On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits. We've entered the phase where only companies will be able to afford state-of-the-art models.

Guess we'll see what OpenAI does with their next model release -- but this move is doing nothing to get me to come back to Claude after switching away due to their reliability issues.

In a way I relish the opportunity to just make do with cheap Chinese models, massage my prompts, and go back to coding by hand. If this is how it's going to be, screw 'em.

I don't make money on the code I am writing right now. I really don't like where this trend might go.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#199

This is a very particular use case/test, but my first prompt on a new model is always "write a solo fingerstyle guitar tab that blends ragtime, bluegrass, and gypsy jazz". This is the first model that has responded with something that isn't just a boring arpeggio of chords, so from my perspective it's off to a good start.

Would you mind sharing?

Re: Claude Fable 5

#200
Anyone else have it refuse to answer and switch to 4.8? It won’t let me ask questions about my genetics.

Edit. It just refused an investing question too. Not sure what’s going on.

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