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My prediction: GPT-5.6 ships and Fable returns this week.
Axios reports the government will lift export controls on Fable as soon as this week, and they're unlikely to favor Anthropic over OpenAI.
Fable is the most capable model we have. It's also slow and expensive.
GPT-5.6
Not as relevant now :-(: I had an opportunity to deeply test both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Max. 5.6 is clearly better than Opus 4.8 at everything (slightly faster, too, though that depends on the load). Vis-a-vie Fable, it is clearly worse on coding, but better on agentic workloads. I
