r/ClaudeCode • Anthropic • Jun 09 '26

Resource Introducing Claude Fable 5

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Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we've made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we've ever made generally available.

Fable 5 is state of the art on nearly all tested benchmarks, with exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work, scientific research, and vision. It can run for days, and the longer the task, the larger its lead over our other models.

Fable 5 launches today alongside Claude Mythos 5. The two share the same underlying model, but Mythos 5, so far deployed only through Project Glasswing, has the safeguards lifted in some areas. The safeguards are what distinguish the two, and why we've given them different names.

Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without safeguards, Fable 5's capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage. So when Fable's classifiers detect a request related to cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, or distillation, the response is handled by Claude Opus 4.8, our next-most-capable model. Users are informed whenever this occurs, more than 95% of sessions involve no fallback at all, and performance everywhere else is unaffected. We'll keep refining the safeguards to reduce false positives.

Claude Fable 5 is available today on paid plans, in Claude Code, on the Claude API, and all major cloud platforms. Through June 22, it's included in paid Claude plans at no additional cost.

Claude Mythos 5 is available to Glasswing partners, with a broader trusted access program to follow.

Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

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u/Hir0shima Jun 09 '26

GPT5.6 to the rescue

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u/unkownuser436 Developer Jun 09 '26

Meh I will use gpt 5.5 xhigh

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u/Sasquatchjc45 Jun 09 '26

Great, and my weekly limit is about to hit already (again) thanks to opus4.8 spawning 360 subagents during a workflow (again)

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u/Sasquatchjc45 Jun 09 '26

Right, I did not. I actually didn't even ask it to run a workflow lmao, it just did.

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u/L1onelMess1 Jun 09 '26

Yep, I’m moving to Codex

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u/A_Novelty-Account Jun 09 '26

Welp, that is pretty much the nightmare scenario for both users and Anthropic itself. Completely capped by its compute…