Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections

Jason Calacanis· Host0:00

All right, everybody. Welcome back to the number one podcast in the world. It's your favorite podcast. It's your podcaster's favorite podcast. It's the podcast that everybody likes to rip off for fifty episodes, and then they quit. [laughs] But the All-In Podcast is not quitting. We're doubling down with the original quartet. Everybody's here for a big, big week, lots of debates, and we gotta start with Anthropic. Anthropic released a Mythos-level model with some interesting guardrails and, uh, seems as though Dario is back to blogging. Okay, the model's called Fable 5. No idea why they're calling it that. It released on Tuesday, and it tops every benchmark, nearly every benchmark. The tokens, however, cost twice as much as Opus 4.8, but it should use less tokens overall because it's theoretically that much better. Unclear if this is going to alleviate some of the hand-wringing around the cost of tokens. But you'll remember in April, Anthropic famously did not release Mythos because publicly, uh, it had some strong hacking capabilities, so they gave it to some folks, and we had, um, the CEO of, uh, Nikesh of Palo Alto Networks, who said, "Hey, Mythos was the real deal," and that they used it to seal up some vulnerabilities inside their shop. Obviously, this new model is sensitive, uh, to topics like bioweapons, hacking, all that stuff are blocked in it. But they