Anthropic wins accolades from Canada's AI minister over Mythos approach

A Canadian Cabinet minister has praised Anthropic's decision to introduce its Mythos model to select companies and allow them to test the technology before releasing it more widely.

"Working with defenders first, rather than releasing this new model broadly, is the responsible path and gives people protecting critical systems a head start," Evan Solomon, Canada's minister responsible for artificial intelligence, said Tuesday after meeting with officials from the AI company.

Anthropic has warned that Mythos is powerful enough that it may be capable of cyberattacks if companies don't try it against their own systems and build defenses ahead of any wider release. The San Francisco-based company has limited access to a small number of firms initially, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Amazon and Apple. They're all part of "Project Glasswing," which will work to secure the most important systems before similar AI models become available.