Fusion DESTROYS Fable 5?

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You can't use Fable 5. Here's exactly what to use instead, and it's actually better. I'm going to show you some side-by-side comparisons of exactly how this works, and let me just tell you what happened this week because it's wild and it changes how you should think about your whole business. So, on June the 9th, Anthropic released a model called Fable 5, the most powerful AI model they'd ever put out to the public. 3 days later, just, you know, literally 3 days, the US government ordered them to pull it. So, worldwide, it was gone for everybody. So, if you want to use Fable 5 today, for example, you hit a wall, it's not there anymore. The best model on the market just vanished in 72 hours for reasons that had nothing to do with it. Now, here's the part that actually matters. You can still reach that same level of intelligence today without Fable 5, uh and you can do it for about half the price. So, there's a new model. It's called Fusion 5, and for about half the price, this can help you achieve uh Fable 5-level stuff. Now, this just came out from Open Rita. The timing on this is almost too perfect because Fusion proves the exact lesson the Fable 5 takedown just taught everyone the hard way. And I'm going to walk you through what got pulled, why it matters to you even if you've never used Fable 5, and exactly how Fusion gets you that power back. So, stick with me because the takeaway here will change how you set up your AI for good. And first, let's talk about the facts. So, Claude Fable 5 launched on June the 9th, 2026. Anthropic called it the most capable model they'd ever released to the public. Had 1 million token context, strongest coding research model out there. Then on June the 12th, that gets taken down. They cut off access to Me for 5 and also to Fable 5. And so, Fusion actually helps us achieve Fable-level performance on deep research tasks better than the state-of-the-art performance using panels, and it works by having a set of models working together, then the judge fuses the answer, and then you get one answer. And you have like multiple models working in parallel. So, instead of leaning on one model, fusion takes a panel of top models, usually three to five of them, answer all your questions at the same time. So, for example, in these tests, what we actually did is we used a combination of Gemini, Claude, Grok Build, and Gemini 3.5 Flash. So, these are the the agents on the panel. And so, if we have a look over here, we've got side-by-side comparisons of Opus 4.8 versus our panel of just Opus 4.8 of agents, right? So, we've got the fusion over here, and we have Claude Opus 4.8. So, which one performed the best? Well, let's open this up first of all. We can check this out side-by-side. So, this is the option from Claude 4.8. Now, one of the things I want to say is when you actually use this, it's super buggy. And what I mean by that is I literally can't move backwards. Like, I can't I can't do anything. Um which is pretty interesting. I mean, it looks super nice, but it's pretty hard to to navigate here. Let's try the other one. So, this is the example that we got from the fusion model. Number one, it's much easier to move around and navigate. Number two, you got more details like the birds flying here. You have the reflection even of the glaciers on the lake. And you can move around and do stuff, right? So, overall, this is a much nicer version of the original. I actually prefer the colors in the original, but I would say just in terms of navigating it without being so buggy, I would say the fusion won that. It'd be interesting to know what people thought as well. Next up, we have a Minecraft style voxel world. So, we've got fusion over here, and we have Opus 4.8 over here. Let's try this out. So, But is from Claude, And it says WASD move. I literally can't move. Right? And the the the buttons don't actually work, which is kind of annoying. The only one that works is escape. If I press escape. So it's super buggy. As you can see, you can't Oh, you can move around now. But you see how that wasn't working for the first few minutes? It's pretty cool though. I mean, that's that is good. Like Opus 4.8 on its own still the best model out there, of course. Um it is a little bit buggy. Like for example, this. Now let's try out the other version. So this is the one from Fusion panel. Right? So it works straight out of the box. Seems a bit cleaner, less buggy when we actually use it. And you can see here that we can easily navigate it. Now which one looks better? For sure, it's Fusion. Right? So if we look, this is Claude 4.8. You see how the ground is not properly detailed here? And it doesn't seem as vast and wide. Now look at this one from Fusion. Right? Look how vast and wide that landscape is. Look at the detail here. Uh it's much easier to navigate. And so for sure, Fusion wins on that one, too. Now let's have a look at another one. So this was kind of like a, you know, an RPG. We said like build an isometric RPG, you know, and with two different worlds. So this is Opus 4.8. And this is Fusion. Bear in mind, these are both in one prompt, which is actually amazing when you think about it. So this is the version from Opus 4.8. Let's just have a look and just navigate over here. See, you can see it's kind of walking through tables. There's a person over there. There's not much detail in the graphics. But I mean, for a one take on a model, Opus 4.8 is still good. All right? Like that's pretty impressive in itself. It's not like amazing graphics, but it's still good. Now let's have a look at this one. Now you can already zoom in and out, which is pretty cool. So this is from Fusion. So we can change the camera angle pretty quickly. And there's a lot more detail, and it just feels smoother. There's something about it. All right. So, again, like fusion has done a better job overall. And it is pretty amazing in terms of this is just a one take. So, what actually happens here is that you only really get one chance with the fusion models. Like, you get all the answers, it takes about 5 minutes, and then you get the answers back and you fuse them together. Then we created a city block simulator. So, this is Opus 4.8. This is fusion. Now, if we have a look over here, let's just see what the detail is like here. It's a little bit buggy in terms of navigating it, but it's pretty cool still. Just kind of hard to see the right camera angle. You can see here it's a little bit buggy. But not bad. Not bad. Let's have a look at this one. So, this is from fusion. I would say there's not a massive difference here. But it is easier to navigate and see things and switch to the right angles. Whereas with this one you can't. And also you see the distractions here, you can't really see them properly. Whereas on this one you can. You can see like the actual people and stuff. Both pretty amazing, but I would say this one just feels smoother to navigate. It's just like those little details on each. And then we have an uh explorable Hogwarts castle. So, let's have a look at these. So, this is the first one. This is from Opus 4.8. Not bad at all. A little bit dark, but it's okay. Kind of weird how you can go through the houses and stuff, but you can easily like fly upwards and downwards. Which is cool. Now, this is the one from fusion. Honestly, it seems there's not a big difference between them. This one's a little bit darker, but I wouldn't say there's a big difference here. They're both pretty good. Or, you know, they're both at the same level anyway. So, overall, it's pretty close, but I would say that still fusion wins on on all of the tests. Uh particularly the Minecraft one, the RPG one, and then also the glacial valley as well. Like this one is is way nicer to use. Which is impressive. So, how does this work? How does this fusion panel work together? So, basically what happens here is that fusion takes panel of top models, usually like three to five, ask them all the same question at the same time, and then you've got like Claude and Gemini coming in with answers. So, they each answer together. Now, every one of them has live web search on. So, the answers are fresh, and then a sixth model, a judge, reads all the answers. So, it sees where they agree, where they disagree, where one caught something the others missed, and it writes one final, clean answer out of all of it. So, you want to think of it like asking five smart friends the same question, and then having a sharp sixth friend listen to everyone and give you the real answer. That's fusion. And here's a proof that it actually works. So, OpenRouter tested fusion on 100 hard research tasks. Pretty deep stuff, not like quiz questions. And fusion's top panel scored higher than Fable 5, the the band model, the best one, right? For about half the cost. Also beat GPT-4.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on those same tasks. Even the cheap budget version of fusion tested about even with Fable 5, which is pretty amazing itself. So, it's you know, if you think about that, the model you can't access anymore, well, a team of cheaper models working together matches it and actually beats it. And those models aren't going anywhere, Now, the CEO of OpenRouter said it in plain English, right? Fable level intelligence, Fable level performance on deep research at half the cost. And then he said the future of AI is many models working together, not one model taking over. Now, let me pause here for a second because this connects directly to something I've built inside the AI Profit Bot. I've already wired fusion into this system with the outputs and the tests that we've done over here, as you can see. And so, the dashboard where you can plug all your agents into one place, Claude, Open Claude, Hermes, all of it with one screen, one shared memory. And the whole reason I built this is so that, you know, if something changes, like let's say for example, you can't use a model like Feable 5 anymore, you don't just scramble, you just lean on the others. And Fusion's now a section in there with research and fact-check workflows. And we've got over 3,600 listeners inside the AI Profit Boarding right now building with this sort of stuff. So, agencies, freelancers, e-com guys, plenty of never touched AI before they joined. You also get four coaching calls a week where we set this up with you live. So, when you want a setup that doesn't break the next time the best model vanishes, that's where to start. Link in the comments and description, or go to the AI Profit Boarding dot com to get the Agent Operating System with Fusion built in. So, let's talk about the use cases for this. So, number one is like if a model gets pulled, or you want smarter answers, of course you would use Fusion, right? It's a great way to use it. Now, we'll say the answers are slow, so you're not going to use this on like quick stuff, but if you want something that's quite deep, or a big report, or that sort of thing, then you would go with that. I mean, imagine for example, if you're running your whole business on Feable 5, and then it just gets pulled, that's a big problem, because your content, your research, everything would be wired to a model that's gone, and you work with stuff. Whereas, Fusion can route that with one model to multiple models, and then you get the best, right? And it doesn't matter what happens. Now, also, the second use case here is research. So, every model in the panel search the web live, and the judge the judge cross-checks the answers against each other. So, instead of one model maybe making something up, you get answers that have been checked. For anyone doing market research before they publish, that's pretty big. And also, what's really good for this is fact-checking, right? Fusion can tell you when the models agree and when they don't. So, if they all agree, you're probably okay. If they're split, you know it's a bit shaky, and you need to dig deeper. So, that's like a really senior second opinion on powerful research tasks. Now, you might be wondering, okay, what is the catch here? So, from my own tests, and maybe it's just the models that we chose on the panel, but you can see here that it was a lot more expensive to use Fusion, and also it was a lot longer to get the answer. So, if you look, Opus 4.8 completed in 104 seconds, and Fusion finished in 407 seconds. So, it's four times longer. Um it costs more tokens. And it writes a lot more code, right? You get a lot more in terms of the answers and that sort of thing. So, you wouldn't use it for everything. You would save Fusion for when you need a big task completed at the quality required. So, let me bring it all home because the Fable 5 ban and Fusion are really telling you the same thing. The old way was that you find the best model, you wire your whole business to it, you never look back. One brain, one provider, one bet. And um this week showed you exactly what's wrong with that. So, you know, these models were pulled. You don't have control over that. Every change in the world can impact you. And so, the new way is like you stop using just one model. You become the router. You send your important questions to many models at once, and you let a judge sort it all out. And when one goes down, the others carry it. When a new better model drops, you can bolt it on and get stronger. And that's the shift. It's from using one model to having multiple working together and getting the best answers possible. Now, some people want to say, you know, this is moving way too fast, like the bottom best model just got moved, etc. And I hear that all the time, right? Here's the truth. You don't need to track every single model. You just need one idea. So, don't depend on one model. A simple setup that lets you swap them in and out without anything breaking. That's the whole game now. Not like chasing every single release. So, having a setup that absorbs the chaos. And that's exactly why I built the Agent Operating System the way I did. You know, when Fable 5 got pulled this week, people with everything wired to one model panicked. People with a panel just shrugged and kept working. That's the difference right here. And that's what I want for you. So, inside the AR Profit Worm, you get that full system. You get the Agent Operating System with fusion already wired in. The exact research and fact-check workflows I showed you ready to run. The Obsidian memory setups your AI knows your business and a 30-day roadmap and the zip file to build your own. And every time I improve the agent operating system, you get the new version. Plus you get four coaching calls a week where we can wire up together and 3,600 business owners building right alongside you. So someone's all always online at any hour whenever you need help. So, you know, when you're ready to really build something that doesn't matter about the model. You can get the best intelligence possible. This is how you can do it, right? The best AI model on the market just got called by the government 3 days after it launched, but you can still reach that level of intelligence today with a panel of cheaper models that beat it on research for half the cost and cash in mistakes a long way. So, here's what to do next. I would just, you know, pick one important question or project you're working on. Something where, you know, being wrong is actually a big, big problem. Then run it through fusion, watch the panel work, see for yourself that you don't need like fable five to get the best results, and then stop relying on one model, right? Not after this week. You know, you want to start implementing this right now. All right, thanks for watching.