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Claude Mythos: The Model Anthropic Built and Decided Not to Sell

Anthropic built an AI model called Claude Mythos that discovered a bug which automated testing had missed across five million runs, and the company chose not to release it, according to a Towards AI report. The model's successor shipped three days before the US government took action, the report states.

by read1 min views2 publishedSep 19, 2026

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