Anthropic's strongest model is free until June 22 — and two more shifts for builders
Anthropic's strongest model is free until June 22 — and two more shifts for builders Three things landed for builders at once: the best model got cheaper (free, actually), free inference showed up on Apple's stack, and one still photo now becomes a talking video. Two of them you can act on right now. Here's the 90-second video version if you want the quick pass first: 1. Claude Fable 5 is public — and free on your plan until June 22 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 , the first publicly available version of its Mythos-class model. It's state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark Anthropic tests — software engineering, knowledge work, vision, and scientific research. It's free on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans through June 22 ; after that it's 10 dollars per million input tokens and 50 per million output . In high-risk areas (cyber, bio, chem) it refuses and falls back to Claude Opus 4.8 — about 95% of Fable sessions run entirely on Fable. This dropped just days after Anthropic publicly warned that AI was getting too dangerous. Why it matters: the strongest Claude is free to try on your existing plan for a two-week window. Run your hardest real task on it now and benchmark it before June 22 — the kind of jump that's worth re-checking your evals against. 2. Apple made its Foundation Models free for small developers At WWDC 2026 , Apple gave developers in the App Store Small Business Program (apps under 2 million first-time downloads ) free access to the next generation of Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute — removing inference cost as a barrier. The Foundation Models framework now supports image input . A single Swift API can also call third-party models like Claude and Gemini, server-side. A new Dynamic Profiles system supports multi-agent workflows, and Apple will open-source the framework later this summer. Why it matters: you can ship AI features into an app without an inference bill. Prototype on Apple's free on-device models, and route