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Episode 49 · June 23, 2026 · 07:37

NEW Claude Sonnet 5 is INSANE!

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New, Claude Sonnet 5 is insane. There's a brand new Claude Sonnet 5 model from Anthropic and it just got spotted in the wild. It's new, it's big, and it could change everything. The crazy part, the last model only lived for three days before it got pulled off the whole planet.

Yeah, gone. So today I'm going to show you what Claude Sonnet 5 is, why everyone's freaking out, and the one simple trick so you never get stranded when a model disappears. So let's talk about it. A few hours ago, big news dropped.

A brand new model from Anthropic got spotted in testing. It's called Claude Sonnet 5 and the AI world lost its mind. Here's why this is wild. Go back a little bit.

On June the 9th, Anthropic shipped two models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. They're basically the same model under the hood. The public could only play with Fable 5 and Fable 5 was insane. People were building stuff, vibe coding, having the time of their lives.

Then boom, June the 12th, it got shut down. Not because it was bad, the opposite, it was too good. The stated reason was national security. The word going around is that someone found a way to bypass the safety on it.

So the most powerful model on earth was here on a Tuesday and gone by Friday. Three days, that's it. Now stick with me because what happened next is the part everyone's talking about. Someone posted that a new, more capable version had finished training.

Nobody knows the real name yet. Could be Mythos 5.1, could be Mythos 6, and then today the slug Claude Sonnet 5 showed up on a partner provider in testing. Now here's the funny thing. The exact same thing happened back in February.

A Sonnet slug got spotted and a few weeks later we got Sonnet 4.6. So when a slug shows up like this, it usually means something real is coming. But hold on because there's a twist and I'll get to that in a second. First, let me show you what Sonnet 5 could actually do for you because this isn't just nerdy news.

This is the kind of model that can run your whole business while you sleep. Let me give you a real example. Say you want to grow something like my AI profit boardroom. That's my community where people learn AI automation.

With a model like Claude Sonnet 5, you could just type, write me 30 days of social posts that show off the value of AI automation and get people excited to join the AI profit boardroom. And it spits them out. Done. Posts for a whole month in one go.

Or this. Design me a landing page for the AI profit boardroom that explains how AI automation saves people hours every week and makes them want to join. And it builds it. The copy, the layout, the hooks, all of it.

See how fast that is? Stuff that used to take a team a full week. Now it's one prompt. That's the power here.

Quick reminder. Hey, if we haven't met yet, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie. He's the CEO of the SEO agency, Goldie Agency. While he's busy helping clients get more leads and more customers, I'm here to bring you the latest AI updates so you never fall behind.

And here's a fun one. The real Julian Goldie reads every single comment. So drop a comment below and tell me what you'd build with Claude Sonnet 5. He'll see it.

Okay, back to the twist. Here's the thing nobody's sure about yet. Is Sonnet 5 really a Sonnet or is it secretly a Mythos class model wearing a Sonnet name tag? This matters a lot because normally Sonnet sits way below the Mythos tier.

So if this is just a normal Sonnet, it's good, but it won't be anywhere near as strong as Fable 5 was. That would be a bummer. But if it's secretly Mythos 5.1 or Mythos 6 under a Sonnet name, then we're looking at something super powerful, like the most powerful thing out there. And nobody knows yet.

Nothing is on the official website. No Sonnet 5, no Mythos 5.1, no Mythos 6. It's all rumors right now. Real juicy rumors, but still rumors.

Oh, and one more thing to make this week crazy. GPT 5.6 might be dropping soon too. So if we get Sonnet 5 and GPT 5.6 in the same week, that's huge. The internet is going to break.

Now here's where I want to slow down and give you the real lesson, because this part is way more important than any model name. Think about what just happened. We had the best model on earth. Three days later, it vanished.

Not because it got worse. Because of a force totally outside anyone's control. A rule. A policy.

Poof. So let me ask you something. What happens to all the people who built their whole business on Fable 5? They woke up stranded.

Their tools just stopped working. Everything they built was hardwired to one model. And that model was gone. That's the trap.

And I don't want you falling into it. Here's the fix. And it's simple. Don't build on the model.

Build on a system. Let me explain the difference, because this is everything. A model is like a rented engine. It changes every few weeks.

It can get pulled. It can get switched off by people who aren't you. You don't control it. You're just renting it.

But a system is the thing you actually own. It's the durable part. The memory, the prompts, the workflows, the agents, all of that lives in the system. So picture this.

You build on a system that has all the models plugged in. Claude, GPT, Gemini. All of them. Then one day, Claude gets taken down.

No problem. You just swap to the next best model. One click. You keep shipping.

Your memory's the same. Your prompts are the same. Your agents are the same. Just a different engine underneath.

The people who built on a system the day Fable 5 went dark, they didn't even blink. They pointed their system at the next best model and kept going. The people who built on the model. Stranded.

Memory. Same agents. Different engine. That's the whole game.

And here's the beautiful part. When you own the system, every new model that drops actually helps you. Sonic 5 comes out, you change one setting, and you're using it, while everyone else is rebuilding from scratch and arguing about what it's even called. If you chase the best model, you're a renter.

One rule change away from stranded. But if you own the system that swaps any model in and out, then every release, every new drop, every update works in your favor. That's the shift. And honestly, it's the most important thing I can teach you today, which is exactly why I want to point you towards something.

This is where my AI profit boardroom comes in. It's my community built for people who want to scale their business with AI automation and save hours every single week. Inside, I show you exactly how to use the newest models like Claude Sonic 5 to do the heavy lifting for you. The content, the landing pages, the whole workflow.

You also get me answering questions in there every single day. Weekly coaching calls, new tutorials added daily, so you get the most out of every model that drops. And we even have a map where you can meet people near you who are building with this stuff too. So if you want to learn how to save time and automate your business with AI tools like Claude Sonic 5, come join the AI profit boardroom.

The link is in the description and pinned in the comments. Okay, let's keep rolling because I want to leave you with the smart way to play this whole thing. Here's the timeline so it's super clear in your head. June the 9th, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 ship.

The world goes wild. June the 12th, the US takes it down. Everything disabled. National security today.

Rumors of Sonic 5, maybe Mythos 5.1, maybe 6. Maybe it stays internal so Anthropic can use it to build even faster. We don't know yet. Nothing is official.

And that's the point. News like this lands every couple of weeks now, sometimes every single day. So whatever drops next, you want to be ready the day it actually happens, not a week later the same day. Because the people who win in AI right now aren't the ones with the fanciest model.

They're the ones with the system that can use any model the moment it's real. So here's what I want you to take away. The model is rented. The system is owned.

Chase the model and you're always one step from stranded. Own the system and every single drop makes you stronger. That's how you stop surviving each AI update and start winning from it. Tell me down in the comments, do you think Sonic 5 is just a normal Sonic or is it secretly a Mythos model in disguise?

I really want to know what you think. And remember, Julian reads every single one and if you're serious about using models like Claude Sonic 5 to grow your business and save hours every week, come join my AI Profit Boardroom. It's the best place to scale your business, get more customers and automate the boring stuff with AI. I'll show you exactly how to put the newest models to work for you step by step.

The link's in the description and pinned in the comments. And hey, if you want the full process, the step-by-step SOPs and over 100 AI use cases just like the ones I showed you today, come join the AI Success Lab. It's my free AI community. The links are in the comments and the description.

You'll get all the video notes in there, plus access to our community of over 38,000 members who are all crushing it with AI. I'll see you in the next one.

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