Nathaniel Whittemore

But others are interested to see what comes out of this.

Saksham writes, instead of the nth lab to focus on coding benchmarks, we might get a model that is actually great at coming up with new UI UX primitives.

Huge alpha in just having a model that makes great UI UX experiences.

Lastly today, as we head into the weekend, X is abuzz with rumors of new models coming soon.

While some expected GPT-5.6 to arrive this week, it's looking like we'll have to wait a little while longer.

The OpenAI account dropped a new promotional video with the tagline, Time to Fly, and the OpenAI developer's account posted a still from the video with the caption, Look closely, there's more in the showcase.

Many thought this was referring to a solid diamond symbol next to the model selector, perhaps indicating a new ultra-fast speed mode.

Still, the OpenAI release that everyone is holding their breath for is of course GPT-5.6.

On the Anthropic side of the house, it's all about Mythos.

Leo at Synthwaved posted, Anthropic is gearing up for the public launch of a new version of Mythos, better than Mythos Preview.

A checkpoint of the model, codenamed Oceanus, was made available to red teamers yesterday.

I'm told these programs typically begin seven days after the wider launch.

Lassonde on Twitter meanwhile dug up another API endpoint serving the model, noting the sky-high pricing of 16 per million input tokens and $80 per million output tokens.

That would price the model at around three times the cost of Opus 4.8, but slightly below the reported pricing of Mythos Preview which was 25 per million input and 125 per million output.

Whatever the details, it is clear that Mythos is coming soon, with Andrew Curran writing, Public release is almost here.

I predicted this for the 16th and I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Now, usually model coming rumors aren't all that interesting, but in this case, I think they actually have an interesting story to tell about how the labs see competition.

Specifically, we know that some version of Mythos is coming, and that theoretically it's much more powerful than Opus 4.8.

And so what's interesting to me is when OpenAI decides to release their next version of GPT.

Right now, they're not under a ton of pressure to do so.