The Fable of Mythos

Fables de La Fontaine - Epinal (public domain) Earlier this year, Antrhopic announced a large language model (LLM) called Mythos, a model they claimed to be so powerful for finding software exploits that it was too dangerous to release to the general public123. Instead, they provided a limited release of this model to select organizations as part of Project Glasswing4. Then, last week, Antrhopic released a version of this model called Fabel5. Current subscribers were allowed an entire three days to work with this model before the US federal government issued an unpublished export control order for Anthropic, citing concerns of model jail breaking and weaponization, to restrict access to the model from any foreign nationals living in America or abroad6. Anthropic denied the government’s finding, but complied with the order by revoking access to the model for all customers7. There has been a massive roller coaster of press over this “frontier model,” much of it seeming to be media-hype…