In the past they received a lot of hate for not comparing to the competition.

Sir, you do not understand! This is the Internet! You must always find a reason to be upset and/or complain!

yikes - looks like you need to go back to stats school

gemini - 13 hits

opus - 18 hits

So they are more threatened by opus than fable, or are they almost as threatened by gemini as they are by fable?

Anthropic fumble of Fable's release will go down in the history books, makes sense for OpenAI to run with it.

Apparently it significant outperforms fable on both an intelligence and cost index.

I don’t believe it at all and I don’t think anyone else does either.

I believe that it outperformed it on benchmarks.