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Claude Fable 5.1 arrives as OpenRouter adds Mercury 2.5
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on 1 September 2026. Earlier that afternoon, OpenRouter added a route for Inception's Mercury 2.5 Preview. The timestamps are close, but the evidence does not show a response or shared launch.
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