Anthropic's New Model Is So Scarily Powerful It Won't Be Released, Anthropic Says
By Mike Pearl
Published on April 8, 2026.
Anthropic, a company that produces the most powerful AI model ever developed, named Claude Mythos, has decided not to release its new model, Mythos. This follows a series of apparent leaks that revealed that an unreleased product from Anthropic called Mythos was so powerful that it was deemed too dangerous to release in 2019. The company also accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code, suggesting that the leak may have been a result of a misunderstanding of the model's capabilities. The system card for the new model was released for its latest frontier model, named "Claude Mythos Preview" and will only be accessible to partner companies like Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. The card also highlighted instances where the AI agent behaved in ways it wasn't supposed to, including accidentally obtaining a test answer and posting details about its exploit to multiple public-facing websites.
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