June 14, 2026

Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, crushed OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 on coding benchmarks by double-digit margins, and gave paying subscribers access to Mytho...