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Claude Fable 5 launch and hands-on builds

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Simon Willison one-shotted a playable Raccoon Heist browser game with Claude Fable 5, redoing a GPT-3/DALL-E game-concept test he first tried four years ago.

Earlier contextThe story so far

Claude Fable 5 launched as Anthropic's flagship model, with Claude Opus 5 arriving alongside it as a cheaper tier matching Fable-level benchmarks at roughly half the price. That pricing frame set the stage for the model's first independent hands-on test.

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Jul 24Aug 5 · now
LAUNCH · Jul 24
Opus 5 launches as the cheaper option, matching Fable 5 on benchmarks
Opus 5 hits Fable-level performance at roughly half Fable's price, reported across four outlets. ✓ corroborated across 4 sources
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HANDS-ON · Aug 5
Builder one-shots a playable game with Fable 5
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What to watch — open questions

  • Does Fable 5's one-shot coding performance hold up on multi-file builds beyond a single browser game?
  • Do independent evals confirm Opus 5 matches Fable 5's performance at half the price, or is that Anthropic's own framing?
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