Claude Fable 5: the first public Mythos-class model

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available Mythos-class model that ranks #1 in our agentic real-world knowledge work benchmark GDPval-AA

Claude Fable 5 shares the same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5, with added security guardrails for potentially harmful cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and distillation-related queries. The release also introduces a fallback mechanism, allowing Claude Fable 5 to route flagged queries to a second model such as Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic shared access with us ahead of public release to benchmark this model. Claude Fable 5 scores 1932 on GDPval-AA, our benchmark for agentic real-world work tasks, taking the #1 position and putting Anthropic models in 3 of the top 4 spots. The result was measured using adaptive reasoning at max effort, with Claude Opus 4.8 configured as the fallback model. Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8 on 2% of GDPval-AA tasks, with Anthropic stating that fallback occurs in fewer than 5% of sessions on average.