Anthropic begged the world to stop AI… then shipped this
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable, its most powerful model yet, days after urging AI labs to slow Frontier development.
“smart people are calling this their singularity moment”
Fireship satirically covers Anthropic releasing 'Claude Fable,' a new flagship model priced at $50 per million output tokens (double Opus 4.8), just after publicly calling for a coordinated slowdown on Frontier AI over recursive self-improvement fears. The piece frames the launch as a contradiction and possible pre-IPO hype move, noting Fable is free for paid Claude plans until June 22nd before going per-token. The tone is comedic commentary rather than verified reporting, but the underlying signal—an aggressive model release amid safety rhetoric—is a notable industry tension.