This post assumes Anthropic isn't lying:

Mythos is the current SOTA
Mythos is potent[1]
Anthropic will not make it publicly available un-nerfed[2]
Anthropic will have a select few companies use it as part of project glasswing[3] to improve cybersecurity or whatever

Since the release of ChatGPT, at any given time, anyone on the planet with a few bucks could access the current most capable AI model, the SOTA.[4]

Since Mythos, this has no longer been the case and I don't think it will ever happen again.

It may happen for a short period of time if an entity with a policy differing significantly from Anthropic develops a SOTA model.[5] However, most serious competitors (OpenAI, Google), don't have policies differing vastly from Anthropic, and thus I can't imagine a SOTA model (more potent than Mythos) being released unrestricted to the public soon.

To be clear, I am not claiming the public will never have access to a model as strong as Mythos, this seems almost certainly false, I am claiming that the public will probably never have access to the SOTA of that time.

Glasswing makes it clear that the attitude among top large companies - those in power [...]

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First published:
April 12th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3MhJELzwpbR42xsJ3/the-policy-surrounding-mythos-marks-an-irreversible-power

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“The policy surrounding Mythos marks an irreversible power shift” by sil

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