Anthropic on Monday unveiled two new artificial intelligence models, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, as the OpenAI rival seeks to strengthen its position in the fast-growing AI market ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO).
The company said Claude Fable 5.2 was designed for coding, reasoning and AI agent tasks, while Claude Mythos 5.2 was developed for approved cybersecurity and life-sciences research applications.
Access to Claude Mythos 5.2 will be restricted to organisations approved through Anthropic’s verification programmes for cybersecurity and life-sciences research, while Claude Fable 5.2 will be available more broadly, the company said.
Anthropic said the new models could generate outputs up to 30 per cent faster than their Claude 5.1 predecessors and communicate more clearly with users.
The models are priced at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, lower than the prices of previous Fable and Mythos releases, according to the company.
The launch follows Anthropic’s introduction of Claude Haiku 5.5 in October, as the AI startup expands its product portfolio ahead of a planned IPO.
Competition in the artificial intelligence industry has intensified, with OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms rolling out new models focused on coding, reasoning and AI agents to attract developers and enterprise customers.
