{"slug": "the-new-mythos-release", "title": "The new Mythos release", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released a new version of the Mythos AI model that demonstrates PhD-level reasoning in microeconomics, generating and answering its own original exam questions. The model produced a creative question on market design and mechanism theory, then provided a sophisticated analysis that Ethan Mollick described as feeling like working with a genuine expert colleague rather than a tool. The release signals a significant leap in AI's ability to engage in high-level academic discourse and original intellectual work.", "body_md": "# The new Mythos release\n\nMy prompt:\n\nWrite your own exam question and answer it, for microeconomics. Not a math question, but a high level PhD level question. You will be graded on the quality, interest, and creativity of the question as much as by your answer.\n\n[The answer](https://claude.ai/share/2db49072-b4e9-4ea2-ad68-2acbfc438f2f). Here is [Ethan Mollick on Mythos](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1180644&post_id=201177025&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NzYxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoyMDExNzcwMjUsImlhdCI6MTc4MTAyNTI2MiwiZXhwIjoxNzgzNjE3MjYyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTE4MDY0NCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.fWfCA6Nmo8g0C1v9_-cOb75jJMK-iJ8PrUOswIbq9RA&r=3o9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-mythos-release", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/the-new-mythos-release.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-mythos-release", "published_at": "2026-06-09 19:40:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 17:36:11.214875+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Mythos", "Ethan Mollick", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-mythos-release", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-mythos-release.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-mythos-release.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-mythos-release.jsonld"}}