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Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by andy99 on Sunday July 12, 2026 @05:28PM (#48885006)
The funny thing about Fable, is we all but know it will be obsolete in a month or two. Between their embargo shenanigans (which IMO they could have avoided just by not pretending it was dangerous) and continuing to give access, whatever marginal advantage it had was essentially wasted.

It would have been an interesting experiment to charge more for it right away and see what the market would bear, rather than tease it for long enough for it to be presumably superseded any time now by whatever is next.

Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by fc417fc802 on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:21PM (#48885466)
I don't see how that matters? It's a treadmill. Sure Fable-v1 will be obsolete but the shiny new Fable-v2 won't. Don't view their shenanigans as regarding Fable but rather their current cutting edge model.
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by Giefo6ah on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:20PM (#48885457)
They clearly didn't have the compute capacity ready to release Fable at any price that would have seemed "worth it".
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by fragmede on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:29PM (#48885937)
Mythos was first publicly known via a leak at the end of March, 2026. Given that Fable is the public version of Mythos, six months gets us September for when the next big leap will happen.
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:35PM (#48887571)
I love that we can rely on the past being prologue!! It’s super helpful for everyone to have become ridiculously wealthy.
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:36PM (#48887583)
>(which IMO they could have avoided just by not pretending it was dangerous)

Best marketing in a long time though. They fucking called it Mythos and built mythical claims about it. I mean… fucking hats off to the PR team.

Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by ahoka on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:49AM (#48889256)
Maybe they have secretly hired Kojima?
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by zombot on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:53AM (#48889287)
I suspect they were attempting to move it away from the open market into government contracts where they would have been able to charge more than what the open market would bear.
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype by dreamglider on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:19AM (#48905639)
It's not that better than Opus 5.8, IMHO (highly biased since personal) - no more than 10% positive difference for the same prompt, and that 10% is not consistent, sometimes you get obviously better response / nicely done task, sometime you don't.