Anthropic dropped the paywall, say thank you, Kimi!
Summary
Due to competition from Moonshot's Kimi K3 model, Anthropic made its Fable 5 preview a standard part of its plan instead of moving it behind a paywall, reflecting the impact of open-weight models on AI pricing strategies.
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