Anthropic just retook the AI crown from GPT 5.5, and split its model in two: Fable for the public, Mythos for trusted organizations. Apple admitted it lost the foundation model race and handed Siri's brain to Google.
-- Brian Armstrong's NewLimit: $435M raised, $3.1B valuation, reversing cellular aging. Human clinical trials targeted for next year.
-- Global longevity investment hit $8.49B in 2024 more than double the prior years.
-- Apple paying Google ~$1B/year for a custom 1.2 trillion parameter model to rebuild Siri.
-- Fable 5: 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro. On the harder FrontierCode Diamond set: 29.3% vs Opus 4.8's 13.4%