Anthropic dropped fable 5.2 today and it changes how i think about my grok bot setup
By anthropic's own evals fable 5.2 is a step above opus 5.5. it's 30% faster than 5.1 and cheaper at $8/$40 per 1M tokens. grok bot runs on opus 5.5 right now and hasn't announced fable yet.
2 messages. 47 minutes. $17.
That's all Fable 5.2 needed to build this character. Opus 5.5: 19 messages, 5 hours, $91. Same prompt, same reference. Where the 17 extra messages went: fixes to gait, lantern and hood, plus a day/night switch I added to the scope. Zero assets:
Oh my fg! I am so pleased with the result!
Check out KIKO using Opus 5.5 High for 180 man hours! Continuously with 3 to 4 hours sleep a day! A couple of human interventions experimenting with 14 different modeling techniques, 5 Rigging Techniques, 2 Cloth Physics Finally got
Anthropic just dropped fable 5.2.
Ahead of its IPO. 11 days before the drop, Anthropic investor jaminball said this on camera: “OpenAI and Anthropic, they have far more powerful models they just haven’t released yet.” Full S-1 breakdown with jaminball and swyx: → when to
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