This whole Fable 5 controversy will look quite silly once China releases a comparable model in six months.
Fable/mythos are the first models from anthropic that hide 100% of reasoning tokens. So it seems to me like we're about to get a lot more data about to what extent Chinese model progress has been a consequence of distillation techniques.
It would take less than 1 month if not for the restrictions. One of the reason is they might be using distilling to achieve the parity.
Google can't do it, OpenAI didn't do it, Meta didn't do it etc etc.
Why do you think China will?
I am quite certain the gap will only grow