Anthropic · Fortune Technology
What Anthropic's too-dangerous-to-release AI model means for the AI race
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Anthropic has a new product with a major catch—it’s too powerful to be released.
Key facts
- For a company valued at around $380 billion and reportedly preparing for an IPO this year, it’s an unusual stance—but one that could pay off in the long run
- The lab has already said it will cover the first $100 million in costs for Glasswing participants, and early estimates suggest it could charge participants roughly fivefold more to use Mythos
- The company said on Tuesday it was rolling out Mythos through an invitation-only initiative called Project Glasswing, restricted to defensive cybersecurity work and limited to around 40 organizations
- As well as being a responsible safety initiative, Project Glasswing is pretty great brand-building, according to Paulo Shakarian, a professor of artificial intelligence at Syracuse University
Summary
For a company valued at around $380 billion and reportedly preparing for an IPO this year, it’s an unusual stance—but one that could pay off in the long run. The new AI model is called Claude Mythos, and it’s the first one Anthropic has publicly deemed too high-risk for public release. (If that name is familiar to you, it’s probably because you heard it here first a few weeks ago when Fortune broke the story about blog posts referencing the model discovered on a publicly accessible data trove.) Rival AI lab OpenAI once made a similar call back in 2019 by initially withholding GPT-2 over concerns it could be misused to generate convincing fake text—a time when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was still working for OpenAI chief Sam Altman. This time, Amodei is taking a different approach.