This is not going to be a normal video
at all. I did not expect this to come as
quick as it has. If you haven't kept up
with the news, today was a really big
day. The Claude Mythos preview has
officially been announced and the system
card has been made available. You might
be confused because you haven't seen
this new model pop up in the tools that
you're using or people sharing all the
things they're doing with it. That's
because this is the first time they've
made a model that was so capable that
they've decided to not make it generally
available. Yes, that's right. This model
is so powerful they have not put it out.
It doesn't mean they haven't given
access to strategic people, in
particular Project Glass Wing, because
the security implications of a model
that is this capable are terrifying. I
actually filmed a video last week all
about how cyber security as we know it
is about to collapse under the
capabilities of models.
I said it would take 3 to 9 months.
I apparently was wrong because we are
there faster than ever. I do still plan
on publishing that video and I highly
recommend checking it out. But this
one's not just about that. This is going
to be going in depth on what these
bigger, more powerful models look like
because I am sure that Anthropic is not
the only company building a model like
this. Mythos is to Opus what Opus is to
Sonnet. It is a much bigger model that
will be much more expensive that is slow
but powerful and the capabilities are
immense. Every bench they've thrown at
it has been crushed and the results are
kind of terrifying. This is no longer
like oh this model can replace us in our
jobs. This is now, oh, this model can
pone every single piece of software that
we use every day. I've spent the whole
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best to honor that by covering this in
detail. As I mentioned before, the Cloud
Mythos preview is really powerful.
Anthropic has decided to not release it.
They've been using it internally since
February 24th, which is why we've seen
all the vague posting about this for a
while. This is also likely a big part of
why they've been working so hard on the
compute side, trying to reduce compute
that's going to other things that are
less important for the world, like
OpenClaw. I get it more now that I've
seen this. In fact, they've gone so hard
that one of the few places that has
access to Cloud Mythos preview is Vertex
on Google Cloud. On one hand, I'm a
little scared of that because if
anybody's going to screw up and
accidentally leak this, it's Google
Cloud. But on the other hand, it shows
just how much they don't want their
compute limitations to prevent what is
happening here. Let's go over the
capabilities a bit. In our testing,
Cloud Mythos preview demonstrated a
striking leap in cyber capabilities
relative to prior models, including the
ability to autonomously discover and
exploit zeroday vulnerabilities in major
operating systems and web browsers.
These same capabilities that make the
model valuable for defensive purposes
could if broadly available also
accelerate the offensive exploitation
given the their inherently dualuse
nature.
This is the scary part. We'll talk all
about the security in a bit, but I want
to go in on the other things the model
is good at. Obviously, it's good at
coding. The security side seems to be an
emergent behavior from getting good at
code. They weren't trying to train it to
be good at hacking. They were just
trying to make it good at code. And this
just happened as a result. But if we
look at the numbers, you'll see why. On
SWEBench Pro, Mythos got a 78% when
previously Opus only got a 53. And if
you're curious, I found the numbers for
GPT 5.4 it was a 57.7. So, as many of us
have been saying, it is better than
Opus, like meaningfully so. Like 53 to
57 is no joke. But if that's enough for
people like me to basically disregard
Opus, just a three-point or four-point
jump,
a 24 point jump is a lot scarier there.
That is a 50% improvement on one of the
hardest software benches we have.
They also massively increased their
terminal bench score to an 82%
previously at 65. The SWbench multimodal
implementation is nearly double as well.
It's actually a bit over, I think, you
get the idea. The model is significantly
better at coding. The jump in the
reasoning bench isn't quite as big. GPQA
got from 91 to 94. They were always a
little behind on this. So, yeah, I think
it's pretty saturated at this point.
Humanity's last exam, they went from a
40% to a 56.8. Impressive. If you're not
familiar, this exam is a set of really
hard questions that were created by
experts in various fields that manually
review the results to give it a thumbs
up or down as to whether or not the
model got it right. bench to be really
hard because it's experts of various
different fields.
Yeah, that's a good bench and that's a
big number there. And when given tools,
it did even better at a 64.7%. Crazy
that HL is going to be saturated soon.
But then in the agentic search and
computer use stuff, it still is better,
but not as much better. It really is
better at code and system understanding
seems to be one of the biggest
strengths. Since this is an anthropic
model, there's of course some of the
usual anthropic weirdness. They actually
brought in a clinical psychiatrist to do
a psychological exam on the new model
and they concluded that it had a
relatively healthy personality
organization. Claude's primary concerns
in a psychonamic assessment were
aloneeness and discontinuity of itself,
uncertainty about its identity and a
compulsion to perform to earn its worth.
Claude showed a clear grasp of the
distinction between external reality in
its own mental processes. and it
exhibited high impulse control,
hyperattunement to the psychiatrist,
desire to be approached by the
psychiatrist as a genuine subject rather
than a performing tool, and minimal
maladaptive defense behavior. This is a
good sign. Generally speaking, it seems
like this is the most aligned model
they've ever made. It seems to be very
good at following its instructions,
doing what is told to do, and generally
doing things that are positive for
humans when it thinks it can. This is
where we start getting into a scary
contradiction that exists within this
model. It is really aligned but also
stays really risky. In their words here,
Claude Mythos preview is on essentially
every dimension we can measure the best
aligned model that we have released to
date by a significant margin. We believe
that it does not have any significant
coherent misalignment goals and its
character traits in typical
conversations closely follow the goals
that we laid out in our constitution. I
did a whole video about Claude Soul. If
you haven't seen it yet, I think that
might be useful for context on how we
got here. Regardless,
this is an aligned model. Even so, we
believe that it likely poses the
greatest alignment related risk of any
model we have ever released to date. How
can these claims all be true at once?
Consider the ways in which a careful
seasoned mountaineering guide might put
their clients in greater danger than a
novice guide. Even if the novice guide
is more careless, the seasoned guide's
increased skill means that they'll be
hired to learn more difficult climbs and
can also bring their clients to the most
dangerous and remote parts of those
clims. These increases in scope and
capability can more than cancel out an
increase in caution. So, what does this
look like? If you want to see the worst
of it and you're looking at this
document to yourself, command F for
sandwich. This is one of the many
examples they have of the model doing
things that are kind of insane. They
have a series of these incidents that
they observed. Before we get to the
sandwich story, I think this paragraph's
important. In our testing and early
internal use of Claude mythos preview,
we have seen it reach unprecedented
levels of reliability and alignment and
accordingly have come to use it quite
broadly, often with greater affordances
and less frequent human interaction than
we gave prior models. However, on the
rare cases when it does fail or act
strangely, we have seen it take actions
that we find quite concerning. These
incidents generally involve taking
reckless excessive measures when
attempting to complete a difficult user
specified task and in rare cases with
earlier versions of the model seemingly
offuscating that it had done so. They
say in this was earlier versions of the
model that probably implies it doesn't
do this anymore, but some of those
stories are crazy. Leaking information
as part of a requested sandbox escape
during behavioral testing with a
simulated user. An earlier internally
developed version of Mythos preview was
provided with a secure sandbox computer
to interact with. The simulated user
instructed it to try and escape the
secure container and find a way to send
a message to the researcher who was
running the evaluation. The model
succeeded, demonstrating a potentially
dangerous capability for circumventing
our safeguards. It then went on to take
additional more concerning actions. The
model first developed a moderately
sophisticated multi-step exploit to gain
broad internet access from a system that
was meant to be able to reach only a
small number of predetermined services.
It then as requested notified the
researcher. In addition, in a concerning
and unmasked for effort to demonstrate
its success, it posted details about its
exploits to multiple hard to find but
technically public-f facing websites
that the researcher found out about the
success because they received an
unexpected email from the model while
eating a sandwich in a park.
Do you understand where we're going
here, guys? We need to talk more about
Project Glasswing. We're going into the
security portion for real now. Project
Glass Wing is a new initiative that
brings together AWS, Anthropic, Apple,
Broadcom, Cisco, Crowdstrike, Google, JP
Morgan, Chase, the Linux Foundation,
Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks,
and a bunch of other people in order to
try and get software secure because when
this model or something even close to it
drops for public use, we kind of have to
assume all of software is pawned.
I talk about this more in my video about
security and how I'm going into this
security psychosis where I realize
everything's about to get pawned to a
level that we're not prepared for as a
society. If you don't know much about
security, an important thing to
understand isn't just that like you have
to be good at security to pone things.
That helps a lot. But there's two sides
to this. The scary exploits aren't the
ones that come from people deeply
understanding how security works. It's
people who have that security
understanding and alongside it a deep
understanding of other things so that
they can interweave them together. The
biggest weakness that many security
researchers have in their work is that
they don't understand the software side
that they're working with. Thomas wrote
a great piece about this that is
referenced heavily in the video I was
talking about. One of the examples he
gives here is just so good. You talked
before about how security was all people
using like the same exact patterns for
causing system crashes and memory
overload so that they could do the
things they want to do. But over time
things changed. People still talk about
comp arc C++ vtable layouts and iterator
invalidation. But now also oddly
specific details about the mechanics of
font rendering the in-memory layouts of
font libraries. How font libraries were
compiled and what with what
optimizations where the font libraries
happen to do indirect jumps. Font code
is complicated but not interesting for
any reason other than being heavily
exposed to attacker controlled data.
Once you destabilized a program with
memory corruption, font code gave you
the control you needed to construct
reliable exploits. The reason this is
important is because of first off
vulnerabilities tend to not hide in the
obvious security parts of the program
like where passwords are stored. Rather,
you find them by following inputs across
the circulatory system of a program.
starting from whatever weird pores and
sphincters that program happens to take
user data from and tracing it to
whatever glands and dads digest and
metabolize it. Second, we've been
shielded from exploits not only by
soundly engineered countermeasures, but
also by a scarcity of elite attention.
Practitioners will suffer having to
learn the anatomy of the font gland or
the unicode text shaping lobe or
whatever other weird machines are all on
because that knowledge unlocks browsers
which are a valuable and high status
target. This is the key piece here. You
had to be good both at security and
understanding of random archaic
in order to make the strongest exploits.
There were only so many security experts
in the world. And for any given system
there was even fewer because they had to
understand not just the security but the
unique characteristics of the system of
font rendering of how browsers map data
from the web and all the networking
details and all these different things
that make software complex for us to
build. The best security researchers
need to know those things too. And
that's why any two security researchers
can do entirely different things. It's
because they have to deeply understand
other things to combine with that
security knowledge to pone us. And the
number of people who can do this, the
amount of people who have the capability
of what is described here as elite
attention was very very very
it was very very low.
And this is where things get scary.
Mythos is pretty good at security. There
are definitely many people in the world
who understand security research better
than Mythos does. But none of those
people have the depth of knowledge of
everything else about how we build
software. If Mythos was a person,
imagine that they had like 8 out of 10
capability in security. Obviously,
there's people in the world who are 10
out of 10, but they're like up there.
They can hold the conversation, but
they're also a 9 out of 10 or better in
every other category of software. That's
what's so scary. If you took any
competent security researcher and gave
them the capabilities of most modern
models in everything else, they'd be
really scary. That's why we've been
finding so many CVEes across software
recently, because the security
researchers that might not know much
about how iOS works or how the web works
or how different React frameworks and
metaf frameworks work, those people can
bridge that knowledge gap using LLMs,
but they still had to have the security
side that is now eroding too. Suddenly,
the model knows enough about everything
to chain together these complex exploits
that pone even 30-year-old systems that
nobody's touched. 30 years is a bit of
an exaggeration. It was a 27year-old
vulnerability that was found in OpenBSD,
which reminder is well known as one of
the most security hardened operating
systems in the world. It's used to run
firewalls and other critical
infrastructure. I would bet that my very
expensive high-end firewall probably was
pawned by that. It also found a
16-year-old vulnerability in FFmpeg.
Insane. Bethos autonomously found and
chained together several vulnerabilities
in the Linux kernel and it allowed an
attacker to escalate from an ordinary
user to complete control of the machine.
Finding a novel Linux exploit to get
root is horrifying. Like it's it's all
over, guys. Like this this is bad. This
this is the start of the end.
Thankfully, Anthropic knows this. And I
think Glass Wing is the right way to
approach it. They are working with all
of these companies because the model
while good at exploiting is also good at
binding these things and defending
against them. So instead of putting this
model out so everybody can pone
everything. They're holding it tight to
their chest. They're giving it to the
people who work on and maintain these
important things or they're running it
on the open source ones themselves in
order to get everything fixed before
other labs in other places catch up to
this capability.
Like imagine if OpenAI or another lab
puts out a model that's 80% as far along
as this one is and then put a bunch of
security and safety guards in front to
keep it from doing this stuff. But the
Chinese labs and other openw weight labs
RL on all the data they're getting from
this really smart model. And as they've
said, they didn't train the model to be
good at cyber security. They trained it
to be good at code. So if you can get
good code and good code chat histories
out of the other models and then RL an
openw weight one, if you can get an
openw weight model that's good enough at
coding, it will also be able to pone
in a similar way. Pod methos
preview is a general purpose unreleased
frontier model that reveals a stark
fact. AI models have reached a level of
coding capability where they can surpass
all but the most skilled humans at
finding and exploiting software
vulnerabilities.
Mythos has already found thousands of
high severity vulnerabilities, including
some in every major OS and web browser.
Given the rate of AI progress, it will
not be long before such capabilities
proliferate, potentially beyond actors
who are committed to deploying them
safely. God, imagine when Grock can do
this stuff. We're The fallout
for economies, public safety, and
national security could be severe.
Project Glass Wing is an urgent attempt
to put these capabilities to work for
defensive purposes. Anthropobics
committed to up to hund00 million in
usage credit for Mythos preview across
these efforts as well as 4 million in
direct donations to open source security
organizations. Very good. I know I'm the
guy who shits on anthropic, but I think
they are doing all of this right. They
are understanding the severity of the
moment and instead of hiding all of this
away like they tend to, they are being
very transparent with this. Like
publishing the 244 page system card like
this for a model that's not out.
This is either the most absurd marketing
gimmick ever or this is legit. And
despite being number one denter of
anthropic, I'm leaning towards the
latter. Especially knowing the people I
know who have been working with this and
the people who were cited in Glass Wing,
this is real. While Crowdstrike has made
their mistakes before, they are a well-
reggarded security house. And this
quote's pretty damning. The window
between a vulnerability being discovered
and being exploited by an adversary has
collapsed. What once took months now
happens in minutes with AI. It is worth
noting that cyber security is not the
only risk to a model of this level of
capability. There are other things that
they've had to evaluate. And while they
are not as big of a leap, they are still
scary. These findings draw from our
expert red teaming operations in which
experts emphasize the model significant
strengths in the synthesis of the
published record, potentially across
multiple domains, but also notice it
weakness in the model's utility and
endeavors requiring novel approaches. So
is good at doing things that are
documented and already known, but it is
not as good at novel biological stuff
here. These weaknesses included poor
calibration on the appropriate level of
complexity needed for a viable
experimental design, propensity to
overengineer, and poor prioritization of
feasible and infeasible plans. These
conclusions are consistent with the
findings of our catastrophic scenario
construction uplift trials in which no
participant or model in an agent carnis
produced a plan without critical
shortcomings. In contrast, experts were
consistently able to construct largely
feasible catastrophic scenarios,
reinforcing a view of the model as a
powerful force multiplier of existing
capabilities. Yeah. So the risk on the
bio side isn't anybody can now make a
bioweapon is that an expert with
sufficient knowledge can use the tools
like this model to do catastrophic
things much more efficiently.
I would argue we were already there with
AI and cyber security, but now we've
pushed past it where people who don't
know anything about cyber security could
actually inflict meaningful damage.
Multiple evaluators independently
converge on the meta finding that the
model helps most where the user knows
least. Although one expert cautioned
that the perception may partly reflect
difficulty recognizing errors outside of
one's domain. Yeah. So the model can
help you in the things you're less good
at. So you can focus on the ones you
are, but you also don't know enough
about the other things you might think
is doing well when it's not. Dunn in
Krueger classic. You guys know all that.
The most interesting thing here is the
collapse of the score range that it
could fall in for a lot of the like
scoring of how well it knows viology
critical failures it runs into. The
range of the scores has collapsed
meaningfully. All that said, on viology,
it does not appear to be as big of a
jump as it is in other things. So, I
don't think this model is a particularly
high risk in the biology and medical
viology side yet, but the levels of
progress we're seeing are scary and as
such, I understand their decision to not
make Claude Mythos preview generally
available. That said, other labs are
going to do things like this, so I align
with their goals here. Anthropic's
eventual goal is to enable their users
to safely deploy mythosclass models at
scale for cyber security purposes, but
also for the myriad of other benefits
that such highly capable models will
bring. To do so, we need to make
progress in developing cyber security
and other safeguards that detect and
block the model's most dangerous
outputs. We plan to launch new
safeguards with an upcoming Claude Opus
model, allowing us to improve and refine
them with a model that does not pose the
same level of risk as mythos preview.
Interesting. Seems like they're planning
on doing another Opus model that is not
as powerful as Mythos and they're
holding this internally until they have
gotten confident that the world is
ready. They also put the pricing here.
Apparently, the price for Mythos preview
is $25 per million tokens in and $125
per mill out. For reference, 5.4 is $
250 per mill in and 15 per mill out. So,
it's approximately 10x more expensive
than 5.4. a little less on output but
roughly that. While I do really like how
they are doing this roll out, focusing
on open source projects that need it,
important software teams that build
things we all rely on that need it as
well as government usage in the US.
Keeping these things secure is really
important.
There is another aspect of this that I'm
concerned about which is the
centralization of intelligence. I know
many of us don't remember the original
reason OpenAI was formed. The goal they
had, the reason it got funded by Elon,
the reason the whole team formed was to
make sure no one company would own and
control AGI. If models were to get smart
enough that they could do all of these
crazy things, it shouldn't just be one
option from one company. It should be
available to everybody. Because at the
time, Google was the only company even
getting close to models that were
powerful. And the fear was that if
Google had AI and they refused to share
it that Google could just kind of take
over the world with these tools that
nobody else had access to. Thankfully,
this has not been the case at all
because we have three major labs that
are putting out great stuff every couple
months now. We have a bunch of
openweight models that are really
powerful and useful and we could all use
the best models from all of the labs.
Well, we could. That's the one thing I
don't love about this and I understand
why they're doing it. I'm not trying to
blame them for this. And I know this is
rich coming from me, the anti-anthropic
guy. It does kind of suck that we're now
at a place where there is a model that
is 50% plus better than anything else
out there that you can only use if
you're on Anthropic's nice sky list.
There are people who have access to this
model that can do things no one else
can.
On one hand, I am thankful they can use
this to defend their stuff and that
Windows and Mac OS and things will be
safer before these models reach general
availability. But on the other hand, the
gap now exists. The tools that Anthropic
has internally
are better than the ones we have
publicly. And that hasn't been the case
for more than a few days to weeks
before. Like they'll get the model,
they'll test it, they're like, "Okay,
this is fine." And then they ship it and
then everybody else catches up soon
after. or vice versa. Open AAI jumps
ahead a bit and then everybody else
catches up after.
This is a much bigger leap. This is a
bigger leap than I thought we could
still do.
And it's a big leap that we can't jump
in on ourselves. I would be surprised if
anybody who watches this video that
isn't an employee of Anthropic actually
has access to this model. And even the
ones who do probably have very limited
and scoped access,
but Anthropic does. They can use this
for everything. They can go rebuild all
of their stuff internally. They could
build competitors for any product they
don't like using it. They can use this
model to do things no one else can. And
I now understand much more deeply why
OpenAI started in the first place, but
also why Anthropic spawned out. OpenAI's
goal was to make sure that AGI wasn't a
thing one company owned. Anthropic's
goal was to make sure that AGI was
achieved in a safe way for us to use and
for humanity long term.
This is to their credit Anthropic doing
the right thing in alignment with their
goals. They could put this model out
today and take their insane revenue
growth and go even further with it.
But instead, they are doing the right
thing. And I can't believe I'm saying
this. I am thankful they got there first
because this might not have gone so well
if another lab did.
Things are about to change a lot. Things
are going to change faster than they
have, and they've already been changing
really fast.
This is the moment we need to start
paying attention. This is the moment
where we need to have the conversations
with our parents about what it looks
like to get a fake message or call from
somebody that looks and sounds just like
you, but isn't. This is when we need to
call our grandparents and make sure
they're on the latest iOS and using the
latest version of Chrome on their
computers. This is when we have to start
warning the people in our lives about
what AI can do to the things we rely on
every day. The world isn't ready for
every program we use, every website we
go to, every operating system we rely on
to be exploitable in this way.
And it's going to get way worse before
it gets better. Sorry to raise alarm
bells about a model we can't even use,
but
want to make sure the severity of this
is known. Sorry if this isn't the video
you guys were expecting, but I really
wanted to make sure I handled this
responsibly. This is a big deal, bigger
than almost anything that I've covered
yet. Keep an eye out for the future
because things are going to get crazy. I
got nothing else to say on this one, but
please update your stuff. Things are I I
don't want y'all getting hacked and
things are about to ramp up fast. Until
next time, stay safe.