[0:00] Last week, Anthropic stood on the global
[0:02] stage and begged the world's AI labs to
[0:04] install a coordinated brake pedal on
[0:06] Frontier AI development because they're
[0:08] terrified that models are getting
[0:10] dangerously close to recursive
[0:11] self-improvement. But this week, they
[0:13] threw the pause button in the wood
[0:14] chipper and slammed the gas pedal
[0:16] through the floor by releasing the most
[0:18] powerful AI model the world has ever
[0:20] seen. Its name is Claude Fable, a
[0:22] mythosclass model that's been carefully
[0:24] lobbomized for safe consumption by the
[0:26] average NPC. Despite the guardrails,
[0:29] smart people are calling this their
[0:30] singularity moment. And Fable absolutely
[0:32] embarrasses GPT 5.5 on the Trust Me Bro
[0:36] coding benchmarks. Right now feels like
[0:37] 2003 when Google was overtaking Yahoo as
[0:40] the dominant search engine. And
[0:42] coincidentally, Google's Gemini is like
[0:44] Ulta Vista in this analogy. We're living
[0:46] through another iteration of the hype
[0:47] cycle. But is Fable actually legit? Or
[0:50] is it just a move to pump up the numbers
[0:52] before Anthropic goes public? I've been
[0:54] poking it with a stick for the last few
[0:55] hours and in today's video, we'll find
[0:57] out if Fable is the real deal. It is
[0:59] June 11th, 2026, and you're watching the
[1:02] Code Report. This week is historic. On
[1:04] Friday, SpaceX will go public and a new
[1:06] world order will emerge. Fang is long
[1:08] gone. Gay Man is dead, and we're about
[1:10] to enter the age of gay manos, which is
[1:13] Mexican for gay hands. But Anthropic is
[1:15] the most interesting company with the
[1:17] most interesting logo in this list. And
[1:19] it's interesting that they named one
[1:20] model mythos as in myth and another
[1:22] fable which implies that it's not real.
[1:25] >> I don't give two but I am telling you
[1:28] right now that mother that motheruck
[1:32] back there is not real.
[1:34] >> It's almost like they're trolling us
[1:35] with these names like that time Neil A
[1:37] went to the moon or when Sam Bankman got
[1:39] fried or when Anthony Weiner showed
[1:41] people his we don't need to go there but
[1:43] you get the point. Oh, and a quick side
[1:44] note. As Sam Bankman Freed was an early
[1:46] investor in Anthropic and owned an 8%
[1:49] stake at one point. Had he given up on
[1:50] the crypto grifting and just sat on that
[1:52] investment, he'd be one of the richest
[1:54] people alive right now and not in
[1:55] prison. Hindsight is 2020, but how does
[1:57] Claude Fable differ from Claude Opus
[2:00] 4.8, which was just released a few weeks
[2:02] ago itself? Well, first of all, it's
[2:03] twice as expensive at $50 million per
[2:06] output token or no, $50 per million
[2:08] output tokens versus $25 for Opus. But
[2:11] another caveat is that if you have a
[2:13] paid claw plan right now, you can use
[2:15] Fable until June 22nd, after which point
[2:17] it will be removed and can only be used
[2:19] on a per token basis. That's a genius
[2:22] marketing move to get people FOMO
[2:23] subscribed to Claude. But is it really
[2:25] that much better than Opus? Well, Fable
[2:27] 5 is literally the same underlying model
[2:29] as Mythos 5. The only difference is the
[2:32] muzzle. It has a set of classifier
[2:34] models that will watch every query you
[2:35] make. And if you wander into cyber
[2:37] security, biology, chemistry, or of
[2:40] course, model distillation, your request
[2:42] gets nuked and answered by Claude Opus
[2:44] 4.8 instead. And that means Chinese
[2:46] models like Deep Seek and Kimmy won't be
[2:49] able to give us a free and open-source
[2:50] Fableclass model anytime soon. Now,
[2:53] among software engineers, the initial
[2:54] reviews are very positive, but one of
[2:56] the strongest endorsements I've seen
[2:58] comes from the guy who created Bend, a
[3:00] programming language for GPUs. He called
[3:02] this his personal singularity moment
[3:04] after Fable ripped through his code and
[3:06] implemented massive performance
[3:07] improvements. There are many other
[3:09] stories like this, but I was skeptical,
[3:11] so I tried it out for myself. I was
[3:12] recently rejected by Y Combinator trying
[3:14] to get funding for my app, Horse Tinder.
[3:17] They said the idea was brilliant, but
[3:18] the UI would never work because horses
[3:20] don't have fingers. Well, let's find out
[3:22] if Fable can create a better UI than a
[3:24] human with 20 years of web development
[3:26] experience. I put Fable on max effort
[3:28] mode and told it to come up with a UI
[3:30] that looks like it was created by an
[3:32] elite designer. After about 20 minutes
[3:33] of working, I was shocked by the result.
[3:35] I got a pop-up window demanding I pay
[3:37] more money for Fable to finish the job.
[3:39] I felt like I was getting scammed by a
[3:41] developer on Elance, but luckily we
[3:43] could see some of its work in progress.
[3:45] It created this absolutely gorgeous UI.
[3:47] And one of the most impressive things is
[3:48] that the SVG horse actually looks like a
[3:51] horse and not just a bunch of random
[3:53] shapes. AI typically has a hard time
[3:55] generating vector graphics, but all the
[3:57] icons in this UI look great, and it even
[3:59] nailed the Tinder style drag animation
[4:01] when swiping left or right. It also has
[4:03] some nice creative touches like yay or
[4:05] nay, and even put the word strictly
[4:07] confidential at the bottom to make this
[4:08] app seem special to investors. I'm
[4:10] highly confident this will make YC 2027,
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[5:03] Report. Thanks for watching, and I will
[5:05] see you in the next one.