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Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself

calendar_today June 20, 2026 person Matthew Burns domain the-new-stack

After U.S. export controls forced Anthropic to pull Fable offline, the launch of GLM-5.2 as an open-weight model demonstrates the value of self-hosted AI, offering comparable capabilities at a fraction of API costs. The episode highlights the risks of relying on hosted AI services.

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