Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 Thursday, an upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding and knowledge work skills, all for the same price as its prior version.
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Not sure I see why Anthropic is publicly signaling an expectation to launch Mythos in a few weeks when they acknowledge the safeguards aren't ready yet, and this will predictably speed up OpenAI/GDM + put pressure on internal folks not to block that timeline