Claude Fable 5.2 Feels Like AGI (Here’s Everything It Can Do)

Riley Brown · · 19 min

Riley Brown argues Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.2 reaches what he calls artificial general visual intelligence, after spending over $5,000 in tokens testing it on 3D video, editing, games, apps and hardware.

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The gist

  1. Riley Brown had Fable 5.2 build a 4K ad in Blender, renting 10 RunPod GPUs to render 1,329 frames in 52 minutes for almost $6.
    RunPod Claude
  2. Brown edits videos by pointing Claude at his camera files and describing the edit, and says version control matters most, so he built free v2.video.

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Claude Fable Main topic · strong yes

AI assistant created by Anthropic for text analysis, writing, and data interpretation.

"Over the past 48 hours, I've spent over $5,000 worth of tokens, and I've been using Fable 5.2 for video editing, front-end design, video games, and other areas of my business. And I think we've ascended into the next level of visual intelligence."
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What Riley uses it for: Blender 3D video creation, agentic video editing, video games, app building, multi-hour research decks, hardware design

253 creators recommend Claude, including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson.

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RunPod AI tools

"It went to RunPod, and this is where you can actually rent GPUs, and it rented 10 GPU pods, so two 5090s and eight 4090s, and then it rendered 1,329 frames in 4K. And so this wo..."

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Claude Artifacts AI tools

"And so what I just did is I just had Fable 5.2 outline how this video was created, and here is a new type of artifact. And all of these types of artifacts Claude can directly edit."

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Also mentioned

2:37 Blender · "Then it wrote a Python script that built the whole set in Blender. So this 3D set here was built in..."
3:48 MacBook Pro · "And so this would've been over five hours on my MacBook Pro, and it got it done in 52 minutes."
5:08 Pelican Riding a Bicycle Benchmark · "This guy's talking about Simon Willison's Pelican SVG benchmark, where they would gauge how visually..."
7:43 CapCut · "So when I'm editing videos, I'm not using CapCut, I'm not using DaVinci Resolve, I'm not using Premiere Pro."
8:16 Remotion · "You're gonna see a bunch of these different stacks or tools you can use for agentic video editing, like..."
8:16 HyperFrames · "You're gonna see a bunch of these different stacks or tools you can use for agentic video editing, like..."
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