Fable 5 Is Dead. And Honestly? We Might Be Better Off
Summary
US government forced Anthropic to pull its most powerful model, Fable 5, just days after launch. New benchmarks from OpenRouter show that fused panels of budget models can match or exceed Fable 5's performance at half the cost, raising questions about the value of frontier models.
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