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Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI Model Nearing Release After Raising Cybersecurity Alarms
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Anthropic said Thursday that it expects to expand access to its Claude Mythos AI models “in the coming weeks,” signaling the company may soon move beyond the tightly restricted rollout surrounding the cybersecurity-focused system.
Key facts
- Those concerns intensified after the U.K.’s AI Security Institute found Mythos could autonomously complete a 32-step simulated corporate network attack during testing
- In April, Mozilla said Mythos identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox during internal security evaluations
- During an interview with the “Core Memory” podcast last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused Anthropic of using “fear-based marketing,” arguing that warnings about cybersecurity risks could become
- The model has also become part of a broader debate inside the AI industry over how advanced systems should be released, and whether AI developers were using fear of an AI apocalypse to push
Summary
Anthropic said it expects to bring its Claude Mythos AI model to customers “in the coming weeks” after completing additional tests. Claude Mythos has drawn scrutiny after researchers found it could autonomously identify vulnerabilities and complete complex cyberattacks. “We’re making swift progress on developing these safeguards and expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks,” Anthropic said alongside the announcement of its new Opus 4.8 model release. The statement is Anthropic’s clearest indication yet that wider availability for Mythos is in the works, following months of warnings from researchers, governments, and cybersecurity experts about the model’s capabilities.