How is it not SOTA? It's beating 5.6 Sol.

It's somewhat useful to note just for your own timelines that Fable was reportedly trained in February. I'm not sure when mythos 5.1 finished training, but muse spark 1.3 almost certainly finished more recently than that.

This doesn't mean it's not one of the best models available (clearly it is), but that table didn't compare Fable/mythos (unless I missed it?) and OpenAI will be releasing a much more recently trained model (Astra) any day.

So you shouldn't think "wow, Facebook has caught up"

You should think, "wow, Facebook is less than 6 months behind the frontier" and that they're actually creating good models which is going to be good in many ways (price for customers, for one!)

There are downsides too, but I'll discuss those separately somewhere

You gotta keep up. Fable 5.1 came out yesterday and is better so anything else is to be treated as garbage now.