BREAKING
Anthropic Reopens Claude Fable 5
Pause and Restore Timeline
1Released ~Jun 9
2Paused ~Jun 12
3Back worldwide
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sessions fall back
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full Fable 5
Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8 Benchmarks
Fable SWE-Bench80.3
Opus SWE-Bench69.2
Fable FrontierCode29.3
Opus FrontierCode13.4
Strengths and Tradeoffs
Strengths
Multi-file migrations
Stripe: 50M-line Ruby in a day
Planning and code review
Limits
Roughly double the price
Overreacts to security audits
Can fail confidently
Classifier Fixes to Continue
AI NEWS BLITZ
Anthropic has brought its top-tier Claude Fable 5 model back online worldwide.