{"slug": "chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns", "title": "China’s cybersecurity industry needs its own Mythos model, 360 founder warns", "summary": "360 Security Technology founder Zhou Hongyi warned that China must develop its own version of Anthropic's Mythos AI model to counter cybersecurity threats, calling the US technology a 'cyber nuclear weapon' that has democratized cyberattacks. Zhou noted that China's exclusion from the US-led Project Glasswing alliance leaves it at a strategic disadvantage, requiring a domestic equivalent for reciprocal deterrence.", "body_md": "# China’s cybersecurity industry needs its own Mythos model, 360 founder warns\n\nAnthropic’s Mythos has become a ‘cyber nuclear weapon’ that China cannot afford to leave in US hands alone, says 360 founder Zhou Hongyi\n\nChina must develop its own equivalent to Anthropic’s Mythos model to counter the cybersecurity risks posed by the artificial intelligence era, according to 360 Security Technology founder Zhou Hongyi, who likened the powerful US technology to a “cyber nuclear weapon”.\n\nReleased in April with the ability to autonomously identify software vulnerabilities, Mythos has accelerated vulnerability discovery a hundredfold while slashing costs – a “terrifying change” that had effectively “democratised” cyberattacks, Zhou said at a cybersecurity conference in Beijing on Wednesday.\n\nThe US had been “astute” in creating the Project Glasswing alliance, under which Anthropic in April granted more than 40 organisations access to Mythos Preview to strengthen their cyber defences, Zhou said.\n\nChina had been excluded from the initiative, putting the country at a strategic disadvantage, he said.\n\n“This means US organisations can use Mythos to scan your vulnerabilities, but you don’t even have the qualification to catch a glimpse of Mythos,” Zhou said.\n\nChina’s cybersecurity industry, therefore, needed its own version of Mythos, a “game-changing weapon in cyber warfare” that “cannot be held solely in the hands of others”, the 56-year-old founder said.\n\nA domestic equivalent would give China a “reciprocal strategic deterrence capability”, similar to the way nuclear-armed states deterred one another, Zhou argued.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3358341/chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-06-25 13:00:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 13:23:16.241070+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["360 Security Technology", "Zhou Hongyi", "Anthropic", "Mythos", "Project Glasswing", "China", "United States"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-cybersecurity-industry-needs-its-own-mythos-model-360-founder-warns.jsonld"}}