4 September 2026

Anthropic releases Fable 5.1 with lower costs and new safety features

First reported

Deep Learning Weekly ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.

  • Anthropic reversed June limits on Fable 5 after public criticism and released Fable 5.1 with watermarking and content credentials.
  • Cache read costs dropped 75% to $0.25 per million tokens, making the model cheaper to run for longer conversations.

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