alt Hacker News"Price. Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token. This is because we’re reducing our pricing on cache reads (where the model reads inputs that have already been processed and stored). For highly agentic work, the savings will often be much larger—up to approximately 45%."
Glad to see this!
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The big issue they face right now is that vastly cheaper open models are proving capable for more and more uses at cents on the dollar.
This is the right direction, but they aren't going to get there fast enough.
They will list, investors who don't know anything about tech will buy, the world will realise that China just put out a model that is good enough at a fraction of the price, they will crater.
And then you see this:
I hope that this also applies to the Subscription usage. As that can then stretch out Fable usage by a lot more.
This is just cache reads. In real usage it costs 15% more than Fable 5 -- all for marginal gains.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/