New Fable 5 LEAKS: Coming Back Soon?

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Is Fable 5 coming back today? We're looking at this. So we have a couple of interesting updates on Fable 5 That's gonna basically determine, okay, is Fable 5 coming back or not? And one of the biggest updates, you can see this tweet from Leo right here, is that Claude Code v2.1.190 introduces several string changes that hint at preparations for a Fable 5 return. With it being included in subscriptions as well. So I'm gonna walk you through against Fable 5 coming back or not. What can we expect? When can we expect it? What does it mean? And what are the new leaks on this update? So let's kick it off here.
First of all, nothing is confirmed. These are just leaks. But the signs are there, the signals are there, and it's looking pretty promising. And obviously, Anthropic's Fable 5 got taken down. Honestly, from what I've seen when I've been testing models ever since, like Opus 4.8 No.1 is nowhere near, and a lot of models are actually beating Opus 4.8 by a long way right now. We've tested out. You can test out and see all of our tests on Goldie Bench. You can actually see what we've created and how it performs if you want to. But the main point here is like nothing is really as good as Fable 5 yet at this point. And so everyone is waiting for Fable 5 to come back. So what's happened? Well, on June the 9th, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5
And then on three days later, Fable 5 got taken down, right? And then on June the 24th, 25th, the leaks started showing up. You might well say this is just a rumor.
Honestly, like every time I see stuff like this, it's usually a pretty clear signal that something like this is about to drop. And we saw this with, for example, like even Opus 4.8 itself before Fable 5 came out before. Like usually when you see this sort of stuff showing up, it's about to come out. And I'll talk about time frames in a minute as well. So there's three separate checkable trails. This is not just like one rumor that's dropped. And the three checkable trails, which I'll run through each in a second, are Claude Code and an update, the Amazon Bedrock Catalog and the AWS Docs. And they're all moving in the same sort of time frame, which suggests, okay, if three things change across three different releases, something is happening here. So let's walk through each one, what's happened. You can see the time lies here. So June 9th, it got dropped, then it got pulled. Then all the signals coming out on June 24th to 25th. So the first one is Leo was digging into Claude Code v2.1.190 and found the string changes. The old line Fable 5 purchased separately from your plan was actually removed and the new line was you've used your Fable 5 usage for this week added. So this is added inside the strings. So that hints at something big that not just Fable 5 is possibly returning because why would Claude add that otherwise? Why would they change the string? But it may also be included in your subscription with a weekly allowance in terms of your tokens that can be added here. You can see the before and after on this tweet like so. This is the old version, this is the new version, and there's a bunch of new updates regarding Fable 5 on the new version of Claude.
Next up, one of the biggest news accounts, Chubby, he picked up as well. Usually when he's talking about new models, they get released pretty quickly as well. And so not only that Fable 5 is hinted at returning inside of these things, also suggests the model may be permanently added to the subscription plan, which would be great. I mean, for me personally, you know, when they said basically when Fable 5 was announced and released, what they were saying was it was going to be inside the subscription until June the 22nd, and then it will be taken out. But it sounds like they're actually going to be adding it back in as well. Now, also, there's a stronger confirmation, which is it's in the catalog. So obviously, like strings are a bit of a hint, which is what we saw with Claude Code. But this is an even bigger update as well. So BridgeMind actually spotted Fable 5 back in the Amazon Bedrock model catalog as well, which is pretty interesting. So the page is live, the model is listed by Anthropic.
And now you've got two separate trails, which is the Claude Code strings and a live catalog page, both pointing in the same direction, which is saying, you know, Fable 5 is coming back soon. So you can see the tweet from BridgeMind here. He says the page is live, the model is listed by Anthropic, combined with the Claude Code updates. The signals are there, right? The Fable 5 is coming back pretty soon. And you can see he's posted the example page right here from Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock. So just to be clear here as well, there's three updates on this. Number one is the Claude Code strings. Number two is the Fable 5 will probably be included inside the subscription when it's back. And number three is that it's been, it's reappeared on Amazon Bedrock as well.