alt Hacker News> Claude Opus 5 is not more capable overall than our most capable general-access model, Claude Fable 5
Ok then so what's the point?
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Really? It's better than Opus 4.8, that's the point.
When they release new versions of Sonnet, no-one expects them to be better than Opus.
it's nice to know how to work the thing that fable fails down to when it dislikes your prompt.
This is useful to me since I delegate most coding tasks to Opus and use Fable for planning.
To have an answer to "Sol" GPT 5.6 which is far more cost effective and available than Fable.
Pricing, presumably
This is confusing to me because in their blogpost they show model benchmarks and it spanks Fable pretty soundly in most tests.
Cost.
Presumably, it’s cheaper.
You are being downvoted for a fair question and others are extremely wrong and confident.
The point is that Opus 5 is the best they can do without needing classifiers and absurdly broad safeguards.
The illusion of progress and advancement, to appease shareholders, and slightly postpone the looming bubble pop.
Fable is twice the price.