Anthropic said Thursday that it expects to expand access to its Claude Mythos AI models “in the coming weeks,” signaling the company may soon move beyond the tightly restricted rollout surrounding the cybersecurity-focused system.
The statement is Anthropic’s clearest indication yet that wider availability for Mythos is in the works, following months of warnings from researchers, governments, and cybersecurity experts about the model’s capabilities.
Anthropic did not say what safeguards still need to be completed before Mythos receives a wider rollout, or whether all customers will receive the same level of access once the model becomes more broadly available.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.
“Although Mythos is currently far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities, it presages an upcoming wave of models that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders,” the company wrote.
Anthropic has since restricted access to Mythos through Project Glasswing, a program that gives select technology companies, security researchers, and government partners access to the model under controlled conditions.
The company has argued that Mythos could help defenders identify and patch software vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. However, security researchers and government agencies warned that the same capabilities could speed up cyberattacks.
The model has also become part of a broader debate inside the AI industry over how advanced systems should be released, and whether AI developers were using fear of an AI apocalypse to push their products.
