Yesterday, was thinking just randomly about Fable 5 and I was thinking that what if Anthropic just removed access to Fable 5 from the subscription to something only API-based and charge so much more excessively from it.

I was this close to predicting the (complete) suspension in some sense but for different reasons (compliance)

but this is a bit of shit-show at this point and I am unsure how involved Anthropic is.

Maybe Anthropic gave us access to Fable 5 for some point so that we can all discuss it and see how Anthropic is relevant as compared to gpt 5.5 (not that I like ClosedAI more but fact is that I have heard decent things about it)

So I am not sure if this suspension can lead to an idea like me. Anthropic showed us a really competent model and then removed it and now you might have to form a custom deal with Anthropic or similar maybe similar to mythos if you wish to access the models and they can rake in extra dollars from top clients.

but they were already doing that with mythos, then what was the point of Fable. PR support that Anthropic hasn't fallen off?

Or maybe I am just overthinking and Anthropic is genuinely hurt by this decision given that they did release the model but US govt said no and US govt and Anthropic has some beef with each other.

There are so many factors for this news and the narrative/implications of that, that it is hard to understand what really happened unless some more news comes (IMO)