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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
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OpenAI and Anthropic continue to take swipes at each other.
Key facts
- During an appearance on the podcast Core Memory, Altman implied that Anthropic’s “fear-based marketing” was a good way to keep AI in the hands of a small and exclusive elite
- Arguably, much of the AI industry has leveraged scare tactics and hyperbole to make its tools sound powerful
- OpenAI and Anthropic continue to take swipes at each other
- Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this month, releasing the model to a small cohort of enterprise customers
Summary
Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this month, releasing the model to a small cohort of enterprise customers. During an appearance on the podcast Core Memory, Altman implied that Anthropic’s “fear-based marketing” was a good way to keep AI in the hands of a small and exclusive elite. “It is clearly incredible marketing to say, ‘The team have built a bomb, they are about to drop it on your head. Fear-based marketing was not invented by Anthropic.