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Mythos: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ for public release

Are Anthropic's claims about Mythos Preview a watershed moment for AI, or just hype?

Anthropic, one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms, have built a new model which they say is too dangerous to be released to the public.

Instead, they are only giving access to Claude Mythos Preview to a handful of big companies to help them find and fix security vulnerabilities. The company says the model has already found weak spots in “every major operating system and web browser�. Is this a genuine example of an AI company acting responsibly, or more of a carefully calibrated publicity move?

We speak to the Âé¶¹Éç’s North America tech correspondent, Lily Jamali, about whether this is a watershed moment for AI.

Producers: Viv Jones and Aron Keller

Digital producer: Matt Pintus

Mix: Travis Evans

Executive producer: James Shield

Senior news editor: China Collins

Credit: Jurassic Park (1993) / Dir: Stephen Spielberg / Universal Pictures

Photo: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Reuters/Denis Balibouse.

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