Anthropic’s Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can’t have it | E2273 - This Week in Startups

Anthropic just built a model so dangerous, they’re not even going to release it (for now). On TWiST, Jason, Alex, and Neurometric CEO Rob May discuss whether or not this is just another frontier model or a potential weapon of mass internet destruction.

Claude Mythos Preview is already in the hands of over 40 Anthropic partners — including Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — as part of its “Project Glasswing” security council.

Together, they’ll test how quickly and easily the model can thwart today’s most elite cybersecurity protocols, and try to develop fresh protocols to keep our most sensitive and critical software systems safe and intact. Once Mythos or a similarly powerful model hits the streets… it’s all over!

Plus, we’re checking out the real-time SaaSpocalypse monitor Death By Clawd, and chatting with its creator, Gyani, about how it feels to have your startup one-shotted by Anthropic’s latest model.

Guests

Rob May: https://x.com/robmay

Neurometric: https://www.neurometric.ai/

Neurometric SLM Marketplace: https://marketplace.neurometric.ai/

Death by Clawd: https://deathbyclawd.com/

Nick O’Neill: https://x.com/chooserich

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Today’s show:

Timestamps:

0:00 Anthropic's new, powerful 'Mythos' model

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5:26 Neurometric's Rob May joins the show

10:04 Sam Altman's talent exodus

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11:50 Has Anthropic Passed OpenAI?

15:44 When will Claude release Mythos? Polymarket: https://polymarket.com/event/claude-mythos-released-by

18:32 The AI race turns existential

19:16 Would Anthropic's model give the CIA the ability to hack a foreign government?

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21:19 Should AI be nationalized?

29:43 Subsidizing secret AI development.

30:15 LinkedIn Jobs - Hire right, the first time. Post your first job and get $100 off towards your job post at https://LinkedIn.com/twist

31:29 How much of the military's $1.5T will go to AI cybersecurity?

35:17 Nick O'Neill's "not sponsored" call-in.

38:24 What is an SLM?

42:01 Tactical/Practical: How can you tune SLMs

45:43 How Neurometric can afford 100M free tokens per month for its users?

49:04 What is "harness engineering"?

50:58 Tactical/ Practical: Every Reddit rant is a startup idea

1:00:25 Why Meta is the most un-innovative AI company in the world.

1:03:43 Gyani of Deathbclawd joins the show — Is your company COOKED?