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

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 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 five two is what we'll be looking at on today's episode. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Sea Data, Granola, and Blitzy. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And if you want to learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsorsaidailybrief dot ai. The website is also where you can find out about everything going on in the ecosystem. We've got a new training program coming up with Super Intelligent, focused on AI champions, I. E, the key pillars of organizational and enterprise AI, who help not only do the AI projects, but bring AI across the organization. And you can also find a link to How We Got Here, my new longer form historical show that tells about the set of cultural, economic, political, social events that all went into today's most important phenomenon. The most recent episode is about prediction markets and how gambling on everything from our phones became normal. Check it out, if you like it, can subscribe. Again, that's how we got here with NLW on any podcast app. But let's go see if this new model from Anthropic has any implications for how I do that show or this show or anything else that I'm working on. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. Well, friends, you knew it was coming. No matter how much people have loved Opus 5.5, and as we'll talk about today, they continue to love Opus 5.5. You always knew that in the run up to the Anthropic IPO, we were going to get a new fable model. That model, plus its mythos equivalent, has arrived, and on the one hand, people are finding it unbelievably easy to describe as the best model that has ever existed, and yet on the other hand, people are, in certain circumstances, struggling to identify what it's actually going to be useful for. To give you just a little preview of the nature of the discourse, even Professor Ethan Moloch decided that the best way to frame his exploration of the model was about asking whether it was officially AGI. So what we're going to do …