Anthropic cut prices… And still built the most expensive frontier model
Fable 5.1 + Mythos 5.1 just dropped. Anthropic’s headline: better models lower cost stronger coding stronger science better agentic performance but the catch is hilarious: the token prices did
Anthropic engineer: “Opus 5 is already smarter than we know how to use.
The bottleneck was never the model. It’s you.” In 19 minutes he shows how to get everything out of Claude — no extra tools, no extra cost. You’re already paying for it. Most people use maybe 10%. Watch
Fable 5.1 has a few details worth paying attention to
45% cheaper — but most of the reduction comes from cache reads, while input/output pricing barely changed. • Invisible watermarks — model outputs now include hidden watermarking. • Anti-distillation restrictions — newly
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Claude Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1 + Opus 5 / Sonnet 5, DeepSeek V4 Pro/Flash out, Kimi, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini Notebook, + cloud computer, AlphaEvolve GA on Google Cloud.
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