Fable 5.2 Is the Best AI Ever. So Why Am I Not Switching Yet?
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Fable 5.2 Is the Best AI Ever. So Why Am I Not Switching Yet?

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 10, 202630 min
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Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 is breaking benchmarks and powering ambitious demos, so why isn’t it an obvious upgrade for everyday work? NLW examines early reviews and his own experiments to explore where the model outperforms Opus 5.5, where it still falls short, and why its biggest opportunities may require rethinking what we ask AI to do. Check out How We Got Here Ep. 3 - How Gambling on Everything From Our Phones Became Normal ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OHJ8GCtbEoAcSHsDT2Byr?si=B7qP-oAGS6SNRoPEGXGC7A⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ho...

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The company dropped Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 yesterday, and a lot of the first reactions

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As the Anthropic IPO gets closer, we have officially gotten a new flagship model. The company dropped Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 yesterday, and a lot of the first reactions are exploring the fact that in some ways it is clearly the most powerful model we've ever had, but on the other, it's powerful in ways that don't make it abundantly clear

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exactly when and where most people will actually use it. How much is this specific to Fable 5.2 versus just the reality of new models at the capability level that we're at. That plus everything else about Fable 5.2 is what we'll be looking at on today's episode.

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