Anthropic's new top model, Fable 5, is smarter than anything else out there, so they're locking parts of it down, pulling it out of subscriptions, and charging double for it. Is this the most powerful AI yet, or the moment AI starts splitting into haves and have-nots?

This week on Deep Moat:

◼ Why Fable 5 sits in a whole new tier above Opus, and caught OpenAI off guard

◼ The cybersecurity and biochem restrictions that have people calling it "too controlled"

◼ Fable 5's effort levels, and why low effort already beats Opus 4.8 at high

◼ Pulling Fable from subscriptions after June 22, and the high-risk bet on per-token pricing

◼ Uber and Microsoft capping how much AI each employee can spend

◼ Price per outcome vs price per token, and the Stripe rebuild that took 1 day instead of 2 months

◼ Where Fable still loses: GPT 5.5 wins the vending benchmark, cheaper and faster on coding

◼ The real worry: AI for the elite, two classes, and "getting our AI democracy from China"

Chapters:

0:00 Intro & Fable 5 release

1:56 Hands-on: one-shotting & design

3:08 A new tier above Opus

4:54 Switching to Codex & GPT 5.5

7:01 The cost problem

9:06 Price per outcome, not tokens

11:56 Picking the right model

13:06 Effort levels explained

14:02 Benchmarks: vending & coding

16:21 Is Anthropic gatekeeping AI?