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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, beating GPT 5.5 with an 80.3% SWE-Bench Pro score

AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model"

Story Overview

Anthropic has cleared its first Mythos-class model for broad public access, delivering Claude Fable 5 as the company's strongest generally available option yet for extended agentic work in coding, knowledge tasks, and tool use while keeping the same base architecture as the more restricted Mythos 5 variant.

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Mike Krieger@mikeyk#887inTech

Claude Fable 5 is out today. The first Mythos-class model everyone can use & the first model I hand off whole projects to. This weekend I built a self-maintaining, proactive media tracker for myself, over 2 days with Fable taking large chunks at a time

10:02 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 20.2K Views
Performance Edge

Agentic benchmarks show clear gains over prior Claude releases

Tables shared in launch posts place Fable 5 ahead on agentic coding, knowledge work, and tool-use metrics compared with Opus 4.8 and competing models like GPT 5.5, though full official model card details live on Anthropic's site.

Safety Guardrails

New safeguards route select queries to an older model

High-risk prompts involving cybersecurity, biology, or model distillation automatically fall back to Opus 4.8 with user notification and no token charge; reroutes remain under 5 percent of sessions and data is kept for 30 days.

Sentiment

Positive users praise Claude Fable 5's creative outputs and benchmarks while negative users criticize Anthropic for hidden limits, gatekeeping, and dishonest releases.

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Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 44MLikes 98.1KBookmarks 20.1K
elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 2.2MLikes 5.3KBookmarks 1.2K
Justine Moore@venturetwins

I just got bullied by AGI

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 651KLikes 7.4KBookmarks 577
Mikel Artetxe@artetxem

Brilliant idea! Next up: Apple randomly reboots your Mac if you're building competing tech, Gmail silently edits your email if you mention rival platforms, and Tesla Autopilot swerves if it detects you're working on self-driving cars.

All in the name of safety, of course. Because malicious actors controlling the world’s operating systems, inboxes and cars would be extremely dangerous!

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 283.4KLikes 5.8KBookmarks 664
Boris Cherny@bcherny

Fable 5 is now available in Claude Code and Cowork

Fable is the best model I have used for coding, by a wide margin. It is a big step up, enabling less prompts and steers, more efficient token use, better code quality, better tool use, more intelligent self-verification, longer running sessions, and higher trust & autonomy.

Happy coding!

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 347.3KLikes 4.3KBookmarks 514

Actually it's fine guys! I figured out a way, see below.

Claude Fable 5 is a great model afterall, and I also finally appreciate the difference between CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.

It's all good.

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 168.4KLikes 1.5KBookmarks 418

DO NOT USE FABLE 5 FOR AI R&D/CODING!!

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 240.8KLikes 1.3KBookmarks 375
Gene Kogan@genekogan

I am curious how Anthropic makes images for their promotional materials. Is it just Claude collaging found images? It doesn't look like an image model.

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 286.2KLikes 1.2KBookmarks 331

Holy shit they actually launched it

1dViews 95.6KLikes 2.3KBookmarks 79
E@Egor1858374

@claudeai It's agi guys.

1dViews 119.7KLikes 2.3KBookmarks 68

Turns out Fable 5 is shadowbanning AI researchers 🫤

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 74KLikes 1.3KBookmarks 123

If you thought AI progress was slowing down, well here's the immediate answer to that. Huge jump in capability across the board. This is going to deliver major improvement in agents across almost all knowledge work categories.

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 133.7KLikes 658Bookmarks 151
kache@yacineMTB

LMFAO this can't be real

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 68.4KLikes 1KBookmarks 121
Shivam Misra@s_misra2000

@claudeai let the monthly migration from codex to claude code begin

1dViews 115.7KLikes 1.6KBookmarks 39
Mark Saroufim@marksaroufim

June 9th Researcher Reciprocity License

"if you train on it, you let us generate - reverse terms of use void"

Status quo 1. We teach frontier devs with ICLR/NeurIPS papers, OSS Github contributions 2. They use it to make frontier models 3. Then ban us from exploring our ideas

We need a new license, original thinkers can't be an underclass to a tyrannical researcher fiefdom

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 90.2KLikes 921Bookmarks 91
Bo Wang@BoWang87

Claude Fable 5 is also an amazing biology model! It just ran an autonomous drug design loop. 14 protein targets. No human. 9/14 (64%) yielded promising candidates.

This is quite remarkable that a model identifies binding sites, runs bioinformatics pipelines, and recovers from its own failures.

That's not a benchmark. That's a drug discovery engine. The 10x acceleration in AI-enabled drug discovery is well underway! 🔥🔥

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 85.4KLikes 386Bookmarks 160
kache@yacineMTB

trust & your brand is a long term thing being in the frontier is a short term thing

note that the nerfing here is SILENT. meaning anthropic will SILENTLY NERF and give you WORSE ANSWERS without alerting you

that's honestly demonic

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 25.9KLikes 950Bookmarks 85
Mark Saroufim@marksaroufim

We consume data we did not create. We inherit tools we did not invent. We run on chips we did not make. But when the commons bears fruit, we fence it.

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

20hViews 32.9KLikes 1.1KBookmarks 68

First they came for the model builders...

I feel we're getting a glimpse of a future where AI is only provided to a privileged few, and that's not a future I want to live in.

elie@eliebakouch

mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community

also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy

1dViews 61.5KLikes 826Bookmarks 57
Sholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

My favorite chart from our system card - FrontierCode is an excellent eval, and it accurately reflects the step up I feel when using Fable!

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

1dViews 58.7KLikes 623Bookmarks 83
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