> It's the near-concurrent release of the same jump in capability that I find suspicious; not the fact that labs can catch up eventually.

What are suspicious of? If the timing is similar maybe just everyone already are of similar capabilities and got there at a similar time?

> Anyone else find it weird how within 2 months of Fable releasing all the major labs suddenly had Fable-level models?

It means Anthropic had no real moat and no real lead. Is that weird to you?