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1. nonethewiser · 1790631114 · focus · HN ↗

   We already have a window into the future.

   - Anthropic told everyone Mythos was dangerous because it's proficiency with biologics and cyber security

   - Anthropic didn't release Mythos like everything else. They released a neutered fable. They didn't get rid of Mythos

   - Anthropic opens a lab in SF

   There was always a quesiton of "will the labs stop releasing their models and start building around them instead?" Yes - they already have. Anthropic is a biologic and cyber security company, in addition to intelligience.

   Personally I wonder if they've been holding back a lot. Opus 5.5 was a good release after a little stagnation. Open AI releases good models and everyone says Anthropic sucks and -- Oh would you look at that - a better model finally and all of a sudden.

   1. WarmWash · 1790631456 · focus · HN ↗

      The way it is right now is to build giga-monster models, use those internally to boost yourself, and distill them down into lighter consumer models.

      Apparently OAI is already building GPT7 and GPT8

      1. pvab3 · 1790632199 · focus · HN ↗

         with how much competition, benchmaxxing, and increased compute for inference, I can't imagine that they are intentionally nerfing their own public models for any reason other than that they can't figure out how to package it into something the public can use. The training data for all these frontier models goes well into 2026 at this point.

         1. bentt · 1790635347 · focus · HN ↗

            I can totally see them nerfing their public models.

            Just beat the current winner by enough to own the spotlight for a bit, then start prepping for the next go round.

            1. _rutinerad · 1790655110 · focus · HN ↗

               The Mondo Duplantis strategy.

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