I miss Fable. Will it ever be back? As a non-US citizen living in Africa i fear that i will have to wait for an equivalent non-US model.

I was pretty impressed with Fable when I used it. Fable on Low was better than Opus 4.8 on High (and cheaper).

Now, for me, it was really about how well it worked on big existing human made code bases. I was working on some new screens in GalCiv IV and if you've ever had to make screens for games, it is incredibly tedious, low brain work. But GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 would just struggle with these over and over again and this is C++ work with limited hotloading so it's a slow process. Fable nailed these screens fast.

For malware detection, many models are biased for or against detecting a threat (likely a thing that can be adjusted with a prompt).

I suggest tasks cannot be guessed (find, not tell). And 2d charts, both for ROC and pricing, vide https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/

Spatial reasoning is where fable really separates itself imo

Quite honestly, this is the most interesting and useful thing that I have ever read, directly responsive to the question of "how good are LLMS at doing difficult tasks, in terms of both bang-for-the-buck and in terms of raw performance?"

My hat's off to swelljoe.

This part was especially interesting:

> The cheap Chinese models kick ass. MiMo and DeepSeek are directly competitive with Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 at roughly an order of magnitude lower price. There have been accusations of “benchmaxxing” with the Chinese models, but I don’t think there’s any reasonable way for the models to already be tuned for these very recently disclosed bugs. I think they’re genuinely becoming competitive with the frontier from Anthropic and OpenAI. If you’re in a hurry, DeepSeek was the fastest, on average, while finding 4/9 bugs. And, if you’re cheap, MiMo found bugs as well as any model for the lowest price.

IIRC from the Anthropic report, the alleged danger of Mythos isn’t that it finds more vulnerabilities than previous models, but that it’s significantly more successful at exploiting them. Which this doesn’t seem to test.

What makes mythos special is the fact that someone with zero expertise in the field could find and weaponize a zero-day. Real threat actors already use llms em masse and the recent advancements with glm-5.2 will probably enable way more cyber attacks than fable ever could.

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I'm convinced if Mythos/Fable comes back at this point, it will be guardrailed into lobotomy.

It won't be as good.

I feel like this could achieve techempower-level legend status