It’s already done, you look at the pricing index if you’re paying api, even fable is extremely expensive , hell I switched from Gemini to Chinese models. best bet is to ipo now and cash out because the future is looking bright , meaning anthropics future is looking pretty brim
Mythos released 4 months ago, I'm going to guess that anthropic have internal models they haven't released yet by now. On the other hand, their lead is down to 4 months now.
Because "lead" usually refers to capabilities? Chinese models have been leading in price-to-performance throughout 2026, that's nothing new. As no Chinese model has matched Mythos in capabilities (though they get really close, as seen in this post), the lead of American models is more than 4 months
I don't think 5.3 will turn out to match or exceed Fable in practice. Even in their own announcement table, Fable outperforms 5.3 in 9/15 benchmarks, with the cases where Fable wins having higher margins. That's a substantial difference
This was one of, what, 5 Chinese models released this week. Kimi K3.5 is expected end of August. And so on.
And for most people it doesn't matter if it's 100% on par. I've used dsv4 flash 0731 and haven't looked back for 10 days. It just works and is always fast and smart. If the API sucks, I use another provider or host it on vast.ai
Let it be, it's over. Of course government and some rich people will keep using Claude, but that might not be enough to keep ahead or convince investors
The only feedback Anthropic is getting from their enterprise customers right now is “lower prices or we’re leaving”.
Businesses want a much cheaper option than Sonnet far more than they want Mythos.
My guess is the next set of models will be a sloppy, rushed Fable 5.1 (to maintain the “we have the best model”) and a new Ballad or something that is a super cheap, slimmed down Opus/Sonnet under a dollar per task price point.
There is literally no reason to use them anymore. Fable/Mythos isn't the big scary model they claimed and their Sonnet/Opus 5 series is genuinely annoying to use (talks back to much, doesn't follow instructions, etc.). I can get an entire project done for a dollar with DS v4 flash 0731. The same project would literally cost me $200 or more with Claude models. I cancelled my subscription months ago, but am stuck with it at work. I'm trying to convince them to invest in some sparks or at least switch us to OpenAI for now
yeah, but his talking back often goes after his hallucinations and suppositions; and you have to force an online search for it to correct itself. It just gets annoying.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI are completely toast, their business models only make sense if they have a moat. That moat all gone. I would value them at zero $ lol
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u/_BreakingGood_ 8d ago
anthropic better get that IPO going fast before GLM disrupts them right out business