Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
THE SO WHAT
Fable 5’s return after Commerce lifted export controls underscores that regulatory clearance is now part of a model’s uptime story. If you’re standardizing on a single “most powerful” public model, you’re accepting policy risk — diversify or build a contingency plan.
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