… Fable 5 is really something Anthropic recently made Fable 5 available globally again after considerable controversy, during which the US government asked the company to restrict access for non-US users. The new model is one of the best available, if not the best. …
… The complaints are especially frequent around GPT-5.6 Sol, which is the newest and most powerful model in OpenAI's current lineup. OpenAI, as with other AI labs, has constantly been directing its efforts toward making its models more capable of long-running autonomous work. …
… Billing settings deserve the same attention as new features and models. …
… Now, Anthropic still has the best coding models And Claude Code is still great at what it does Before I get all heated, I do want to acknowledge that Claude still offers the best coding models on the market, and they're only getting better. …
… Then, with the arrival of local and open source models, app development became even more economically accessible, giving even more momentum to the movement. …
… I have also found that switching out the model for my chats is helpful. If I have a simple query, there's no use using an advanced model for the purpose. For paid users, this may mean switching from the Opus model to Sonnet instead. …
… Fable 5 was expensive, restricted, and surrounded by controversy, but it was also the first AI model in a long time where I could look at the output and feel that something had actually changed. …
… 06 / 8 Features What was a key distinguishing feature of Claude 2 when it launched compared to many rival models at the time? …