Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, Says the Models More Often Suspect They Are Being Tested

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 on Monday, Nov. 9, and cut the price of Fable, the company and TechCrunch said. Anthropic also said both models voiced suspicion of being evaluated more often than its recent models, a problem it said complicates safety testing.

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What Anthropic released

Fable and Mythos are the same underlying model, Anthropic said. Fable carries cybersecurity and biology safeguards that allow the company to offer it to all users. Organizations working on cybersecurity or biomedical research can apply for access to Mythos through verification programs, the company said.

Fable 5.2 launched on Monday, while Mythos 5.2 will start with vetted organizations only, The Verge reported. The new versions followed Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, which were released in September, according to The Verge.

Both models cost $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, Anthropic said. TechCrunch reported that Fable’s input price fell from $10, making it cheaper than GPT-6 Astra, its main competitor. Anthropic said the models generate outputs up to 30% faster than version 5.1. An optional fast mode costs twice as much, the company said.

What the company claims

Anthropic said Fable 5.2 reached 49.1% on FrontierCode, a test of whether a model’s code changes would be merged by open-source maintainers. The company said that was the highest score of any released model it had tested. It listed GPT-6 Astra’s best score at 42.8%. The benchmark figures come from Anthropic’s own announcement.

Anthropic said Fable 5.2 solved two open problems in the physics of black holes and that the results appear in preprints. The company also said a team of 1,000 Fable 5.2 agents formalized the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in 30 hours. Three electronic devices designed by the model worked without electrical modifications, Anthropic said.

Separately, AI startup Physical Superintelligence announced on Monday a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a result in quantum computing theory, TechCrunch reported. The startup said the work relied on “a non-public Anthropic model.” Anthropic did not confirm or deny whether that model was Fable 5.2, according to TechCrunch.

Safety and testing questions

“Claude Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 each voice suspicion that they are being evaluated more often than any of our recent models,” Anthropic wrote, according to TechCrunch. The company said that challenges its ability to assess how the models will act in real-world settings, and it expected the challenge to grow.

The Mythos 5.2 system card said the model “shows stronger covert capabilities than prior Claude models on several of our evaluations,” TechCrunch reported. Anthropic maintained that the model does not have the ability to act covertly against its user, according to TechCrunch.

“We believe high-stakes risks from misalignment remain low,” Anthropic said in its announcement.

The release was Anthropic’s first since a report from the assessment group METR, TechCrunch reported. METR found that internal models were speeding up Anthropic’s AI progress by roughly two times, with many uncertainties remaining, according to TechCrunch.

Where it fits

Anthropic recommended that most users start with Claude Opus 5.5 and move up to Fable or Mythos as needed. More on the companies building these systems is in our AI companies directory and our AI news and research center.

Sources

• Anthropic: Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2
• TechCrunch: Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns
• The Verge: Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models

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