What are you working on? What are you learning? Imagine that your session with Claude Code has kicked off and you are talking to a new friend you made last week. You are both sitting at the frontier library where Anthropic has rolled out access to Fable—the only place in the world where you can get access. It’s a visit to the future and it’s much more social and human than we all might have thought it would be.
Constraints can spark creativity. That Fable, the world’s current frontier AI model, is not currently accessible due to export restrictions is a major constraint. As a result of the restriction, we should think about a creative way of providing access to the newest frontier AI model.
The greatest library of the ancient world, the Library of Alexandria, provides a way to think about an in-person experience that would dramatically change the landscape around frontier AI.
Anthropic can open up a physical library space where people could go and access Fable (or the latest frontier model) only while at the library. It’s the most modern manifestation of an ancient space: the reading room. Adjacent to the reading rooms, you could have discussion halls and salons.
Today, as we adjust to life with powerful AI impacting us at work and at home, there are some desires that are coming to the forefront. There is a clearer view of what being on the cutting edge and living in the future looks like. There is also a community seeking going on—primarily online—for making sure they are on that cutting edge or at least not falling far behind.
We want to live on the cutting edge with technology, even if not everyone wants the societal impact of that. We seek human connections and want to share more than ever before. We want help or companionship in exploring the frontier. How you use AI is the modern equivalent of finding your way with telephone etiquette in the post-Alexander Graham Bell period. We’re all figuring it out and the etiquette is unevenly distributed. The technology isn’t going anywhere—so let’s talk to each other and figure out how to use it right.1