Anthropic has raised the bar by officially launching Claude Fable 5 today, making its Mythos-class AI model available to the general public for the first time. The model tops nearly every major benchmark but ships with built-in safety controls that reroute high-risk queries to Claude Opus 4.8. The release arrives days after Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus and is seen as a landmark moment for both AI safety and commercial AI deployment. For me, the safety controls are the p