56:01Fable 5 Is Coming Back: Here's What Actually Changed
Stacked Podcast hosts Jack and Nick react to Fable 5, Anthropic's most powerful model, coming back after an export control fight, and to Sonnet 5 dropping the day before. They argue Sonnet 5 is basically just cheaper Opus, that cost optimization and model orchestration now beat raw benchmarks, and that a top model should orchestrate a bench of cheaper ones. They break down what actually changed with the returning Fable: a quietly swapped model, softened cybersecurity limits, incoming digital ID and age verification via Persona, and a plan that only covers 50 percent of usage before rolling to API pricing. The back half riffs on Steve Jobs and ignoring your Customer, Chinese distillation and monopoly pressure, Claude accelerating science, and bionic eyes and telepathy.