BREAKING
Claude Fable 5 Relaunches July 1
From Launch to Relaunch
1
Announced Jun 9
↓
2
Halted Jun 12
↓
3
Restrictions lifted Jun 30
↓
4
Back on Jul 1
BridgeBench Scores Drop Sharply
Debug before
86.2
Debug after
25.9
Refactor before
73.6
Refactor after
38.4
0
%
weekly usage cap
0
hallucination resist
Safety vs Performance Tradeoff
Complaints
nerf
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Classifiers trigger too often
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Blocks C/C++/Rust/Win32 work
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Falls back to Opus 4.8
Still strong
when it runs
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Performance near launch level
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1M-token context window
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More fixes expected
More Updates Likely Ahead
AI NEWS BLITZ
Anthropic has brought Claude Fable 5 back online, but developers say it feels different.