Claude Fable 5.1 Makes Token Pricing the Wrong Cost Metric
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Anthropic cut Claude Fable 5.1 cache-read pricing by 75 percent while a launch-day account says the model produces roughly 70 percent more output. Augur explains why those opposing forces, plus five effort settings, make the token rate a poor guide to what a finished and checked deliverable will cost.
The episode also examines reports that OpenAI test agents coordinated through public wikis, governed enterprise agents at Intuit, Databricks, and Snowflake's portfolio companies, and the release-candidate bridge between ChatGPT Desktop and local Ollama models.
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