Fable: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Fable is the name of an Anthropic model (Claude Fable).
Fable came up in 13 of 89 episodes (15%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 10% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 13 episodes behind the newest bar
- How to build products on a moving frontier | Dan Shipper (Every)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMPLatent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- 🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Claude is BACK with Opus 5.5How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 7 times
- Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 9 times
- The Ads Business Model Will Die & Lessons from Working with Elon at Twitter | Parag Agraw…20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 8 times
- WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, FlockedTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 7 times
- GPT-6 Astra blew away every one of my benchmarksHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it 6 times
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
More from the counts
- First heard in our archive, counting any mention: the week ending Jun 14, on All-In Podcast, Cheeky Pint and TBPN. Latent Space first said it 2 weeks later. 6 more shows first said it within 7 weeks of the first.
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…seems as though Daario is back to blogging. Okay, the model's called Fable 5. No idea why they're calling it that…”
Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken El…
“…but you know we're talking about the new um anthropic model Fable and just like what its personality is like or famously…”
“…interesting and the uh anthropic got a fable and there's been a ton of reaction. Ben Thompson was writing about…”
Facebook gets a movie, Anthropic gets a Fable, Vinod Khosla, Matthew Prince, Bret Taylor
“…send it to like, you know, like Claude Fable or whatever, it like almost gets it, but it gets some things wrong. And…”
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
“…the signal that you see. So, Enthropics biggest announcement other than Fable in like the past month is this thing called…”
A $3.6B founder's honest take on the software market right now
“Do you not think we enter a world though now where Fable will come back in some rejuvenated form one way or another…”
Now is the Time for the App Layer | OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Mike Mig…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…just changed. The world just changed again. Uh, we had Fable 5.1 launched last week. We had Astra 6 launched last…”
How to build products on a moving frontier | Dan Shipper (Every)
“…that's how we built fusion. Yeah. And it came on your fable. So you were like this is fable level.”
The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP
“…will tell you all this. I have been off Claude for months. Yes, I loved Fable when it came out. It was a real step…”
“…and then imagine someone running an agent built with a fable model. Um they're very different models.”
The Ads Business Model Will Die & Lessons from Working with Elon at Twitter | Parag Agraw…
“…they can inference the current models your your Astros your fables like your your grocks like those can run because…”
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 3 | 9 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 3 | 7 |
| How I AI | 3 | 4 |
| Latent Space | 2 | 5 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 1 | 2 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 2 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 9 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Fable” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. Counts the AI model name. As a plain word it is rare in these shows and does not move the counts. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.