The ‘Smartest AI’ Is a Vanity Metric. Here’s What Anthropic’s Trillion-Dollar Gamble Reveals
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 release proves that the ‘smartest AI model’ is now a vanity metric. To justify a near-trillion-dollar IPO, Anthropic is slashing agent cache costs by 75% to drive enterprise workflow addiction, while building anti-distillation moats to protect their IP. The real AI war isn’t about peak intelligence—it’s about surviving crushing compute economics.