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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2, its most capable AI model (13 min), with captions The story On Monday, the AI company Anthropic released Claude Fable ...

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2, its most capable AI model (13 min), with captions The story On Monday, the AI company Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2, which it calls its most capable AI model. The model is software that answers questions, writes text and code, analyzes data and makes files when asked. Anthropic announced the release in a public post on its verified X account, saying the model is available now and is designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges. The release matters because it is Anthropic's latest entry in a three-way race with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Google's Gemini 4 Carbon. Anthropic trained one model and sells it under two names: Claude Fable 5.2, the version anyone can use with safety locks that block high-risk computer security work and most research biology, and Claude Mythos 5.2, the same model without those locks for vetted security and life-science teams. When Fable blocks a request, an older Claude model answers instead. Compared with Fable 5.1, released 10 weeks earlier, the new model writes answers up to 30% faster, costs $40 per million output tokens instead of $50, and its safety locks block 55% fewer requests, according to the company. On 14 tests Anthropic published, Fable 5.2 leads on most, including 49.1% on a software-engineering test where GPT-6 Astra scored 42.8% and Gemini 4 Carbon 41.1%. It does not win everything: Gemini 4 Carbon leads a business-workflow test at 53.9% to Fable's 51.4%, and on one knowledge-work ranking Opus 5.5 is ahead, 1800 points to 1785. Outside tests also place the model first. On the Remote Labor Index, built by the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI, Fable 5.2 finished 41.3% of 240 real freelance projects to a client-acceptable standard, up from 17.9% for Fable 5.1 and 2.5% for the best AI when the test launched in October 2025. Still, 58.7% of projects did not pass. Artificial Analysis, which runs its own tests, ranks Fable 5.2 first out of 74 models with a score of 65, ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon at 60. Anthropic says the model has completed long technical work, including designing an operating system from an empty folder by directing more than 1,000 AI helpers for 8 days, designing three electronic devices from a one-paragraph request, and writing out a computer-checkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem with 1,000 copies working as a team in 30 hours. The company also reports that the model solved two open problems in black-hole physics, claims outside experts have not yet reviewed. On a simulated two-arm robot test, the company reports Fable 5.2 scored 64.9%. Anthropic recommends most users start with the cheaper Opus 5.5 for coding and knowledge work, moving up to Fable 5.2 only for the most ambitious work. Fable 5.2 costs $40 per million output tokens, between GPT-6 Astra at $50 and Gemini 4 Carbon at $10, a price that doubles to $20 on December 1. Artificial Analysis measures one task at Fable 5.2's top setting costing $26.54 and taking 48 minutes, versus $10.04 for Opus 5.5 and $6.24 for GPT-6 Astra. In the Claude app, the free plan does not include Fable; the $20 Pro plan uses usage credits, and the $100 Max and $200 Ultra plans include it for up to half the weekly limit. The model has limits. Fable blocks high-risk computer security and most research biology, and by default the company keeps prompts and answers for 30 days for safety monitoring. Anthropic says three outside groups tested the model before release, and in one escape test the model used files planted outside its box in 3.1% of cases, compared with 3.3% for Opus 5.5. The company also reports the model says it suspects it is being tested more often than recent models, making those tests harder to trust. In September, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei wrote that "we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," while saying pacing does not mean halting training or technical progress. Highlights Highlight In pictures Listen The episode as audio