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They clearly didn't have the compute capacity ready to release Fable at any price that would have seemed "worth it".

I don't see how that matters? It's a treadmill. Sure Fable-v1 will be obsolete but the shiny new Fable-v2 won't. Don't view their shenanigans as regarding Fable but rather their current cutting edge model.

>(which IMO they could have avoided just by not pretending it was dangerous)

Best marketing in a long time though. They fucking called it Mythos and built mythical claims about it. I mean… really hats off to the PR team.

Maybe they have secretly hired Kojima?

Mythos was first publicly known via a leak at the end of March, 2026. Given that Fable is the public version of Mythos, six months gets us September for when the next big leap will happen.

I love that we can rely on the past being prologue!! It’s super helpful for everyone to have become ridiculously wealthy.

It's not that better than Opus 5.8, IMHO (highly biased since personal) - no more than 10% positive difference for the same prompt, and that 10% is not consistent, sometimes you get obviously better response / nicely done task, sometime you don't.

I suspect they were attempting to move it away from the open market into government contracts where they would have been able to charge more than what the open market would bear.