Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense |
Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense
Anthropic is giving a group of Big Tech and cybersecurity firms access to a preview version of Claude Mythos—its unreleased and most advanced AI model—in an attempt to bolster cybersecurity defences across some of the world’s most critical systems.
The company has been concerned that the new model may pose unprecedented cybersecurity risks and increase the likelihood of large-scale AI-driven cyberattacks this year.
The initiative, called “Project Glasswing,” allows firms, including Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, to use the company’s Mythos Preview for defensive security work and share their learnings with the wider industry. Anthropic is also providing access to roughly 40 more organizations responsible for building or maintaining critical software infrastructure, allowing them to use the model to scan and secure both their own systems and open-source code.
In a blog post announcing the new initiative, Anthropic said it formed Project Glasswing because it believes the capabilities of its Claude Mythos Preview could reshape the cybersecurity sector due to its strong agentic coding and reasoning skills. Anthropic said it does not plan to make the Mythos Preview generally available, but eventually wants to safely deploy Mythos-class models at scale when new safeguards are in place.
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