It was just revealed that Fable 5.5 will make a surprise launch tomorrow, and Google and OpenAI are fully gearing up to meet the challenge.
Silicon Valley's "Big Three" AI showdown is fully ignited in October!
Just today, a source on X broke the news that Anthropic's ultimate trump card, Fable 5.5, will very likely launch in a surprise raid tomorrow!
Nearly at the same time, The Information dropped a scoop: Anthropic's new model is already up and running with testers.
People who have used it revealed that the leap of the next-generation mythical-level Claude is focused on three core capabilities: "reasoning depth, intuitive judgment, and understanding human intentions".
The most terrifying part is that it has developed powerful "mind-reading" capabilities: even if you don't state your explicit needs, it can grasp what you really want.
You only ask it to fix 1 Bug, and it can dig out the entire category of underlying problems behind it!
Before Anthropic officially shows its hand, OpenAI and Google can no longer hold back. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is already running internally, and OpenAI's new-generation Terra is also fully prepared for launch.
This October, the large model battlefield is destined to be filled with fierce competition.
In the coming weeks, the AI industry will usher in a huge carnival again!
The new Claude has learned "mind-reading"
According to The Information, a tester who got early access said that the reasoning and intuition of this new model surpass all models currently sold by Anthropic.
What makes people even more amazed is its other unique skill —
Even if the user provides very little information and does not explicitly state their goals, it is exceptionally good at seeing through the intentions and objectives behind the user's actions.
Reasoning and intuition are easy to understand, but "seeing through the unspoken goals you have not voiced" directly touches the deepest core of human-AI interaction.
Fix 1 Bug, it digs out the entire category of related issues
An insider who has tested it gave an example: you casually send it an error report and ask it to fix a Bug.
Traditional models will "treat the headache by fixing the head", just adding a patch to the reported error and then submitting the result.
But it will follow the clues, dig out the entire category of problems that cause this Bug, and then come back to ask if you want to fix all of them together.
Anyone who has written code knows that the same defect often hides in multiple places. After you fix one spot, errors will pop up in another place after a couple of days.
Previous AI would only fix the exact spot you specified, and you still had to find all the remaining issues one by one yourself. The new model will check further on its own and present all similar problems to you at once.
Moreover, it will not make decisions on its own. Whether to make changes and what scope to modify, it will ask you first, and you remain the one who makes the final call.
With AI of this level, you can safely entrust it with large and complex tasks.
Another example: when you ask it how to trade stocks, it does not follow the usual routine. It does not talk to you about cliché indicators like price-to-earnings ratio, but designs a set of algorithms on its own to predict the future trend of stock prices.
One digs out the root cause along with the Bug, the other breaks out of common sense to create its own methods. No wonder testers use the word "intuition", which is deeply human, to describe it.
AI industry veteran TestingCatalog exclaimed after seeing the results: thinking outside the box has always been a long-standing difficulty for large models. If a model can really do this stably, AI will officially step into the "innovator" stage.
Write a thermometer program, and catch a mining Trojan horse by the way
This ability to "think one step further" has already been demonstrated by the currently available Claude.
In the past few days, a Mac user shared his experience on Reddit, which was reposted to X and became viral, with a single repost gaining 220,000 views.
He only asked Claude Code to help write a small temperature monitoring applet.
When Claude read the sensor data, it found that the readings were absurdly high, with the CPU peak soaring to 112°C. Instead of just displaying the number on the menu bar and finishing the task, it turned around to check what was consuming the CPU resources.
A mining program named xmrig was caught red-handed! The CPU usage was about 1175%, which is equivalent to running all 12 cores at full capacity.
It also found the hiding place of the program. The program was hidden in /tmp/rigupdater, and the startup auto-run entry was planted as early as August 29, much earlier than the time it started writing the code.
Just like when fixing Bugs, it did not take action on its own, but asked first "Can I clean it up now". The user originally only wanted to check the temperature, but ended up catching the real culprit behind the slowdown of his computer.
And this is only the performance of the currently available Claude.
Fable 5.5, surprise launch tomorrow?
Rumors about Fable 5.5 have never stopped since the beginning of this month.
At that time, a large number of developers broke the news one after another that Fable 5.1 was quietly routed to a stronger new model.
The most obvious sign is that it can even answer who "Reset Guy" Tibo is, a new meme that old models know nothing about.
The senior developers who were routed to the new model were shocked as soon as they tested it.
It can create animations, do 3D physics simulations, and build engineering projects and write code from scratch, all in one go.
Someone only gave two prompts, totaling no more than four lines, and asked it to draw an animation A Person's Life frame by frame using JS. It ran for 2 hours straight and consumed 27 million tokens.
Another person pitted it head-to-head against GPT-6.1 Sol. When both were tasked with making a draggable 3D jellyfish, its stretching and rebound effects performed even better.
If routing was only a gray-scale test, the clues that emerged in the code library last week made people feel that the launch is just around the corner.
On October 13, a bot on GitHub registered "claude-fable-5-5" under the name of Microsoft Foundry.
On the same day, the open source project LiteLLM also added "azure_ai/claude-fable-5-5", and the submission note stated that this name comes from Azure's model interface.
Although the entry was later deleted and the clues were once broken, today's report from The Information has reignited the enthusiasm of the public.
The report did not name the model, and it is still unclear whether the new model will be classified into the Fable or Opus family. The former is the largest and most powerful tier of Anthropic, and the latter ranks second.
But Amir Efrati, executive editor of The Information, personally posted on X asking: Is Anthropic about to release Fable 5.5? It looks like it...
With the executive editor himself saying so, almost all bets across the network are overwhelmingly placed on Fable 5.5.
Some netizens said that Anthropic has now surpassed OpenAI, and once Fable 5.5 is released, it will occupy a unique tier with no rivals at all.
Netizens' guess of "tomorrow" is not random: both Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 were released on Tuesdays.
However, the reporter Stephanie Palazzolo who wrote the report has corrected her statement, saying that the launch will be in the coming weeks.
In other words, even if it does not come tomorrow, Fable 5.5 is at most only a few weeks away from release.
Google and OpenAI show their swords at the same time
While Anthropic is working on its big move, the other two are not idle either.
On Google's side, Gemini 4 Argon was released just last week, and its next card Carbon is already running internally.
According to internal documents and screenshots seen by Business Insider, Carbon has been deployed on Google's internal programming platform Jetski.
One employee said that its code writing performance "feels like Opus 5.5"; another shouted in the internal channel: "Carbon is really great!"
