Nathaniel Whittemore

Marketing yourself by scaring a bunch of people who can't do anything about it is sort of an a-hole move.

There's a reason other companies don't do this.

And it's not because you guys are the only ones who make anything dangerous.

OpenAI leaker I rule the world is also skeptical.

They write, like, let's release a model no one will ever really use.

It'll create public perception we're far ahead and give enterprise confidence we can be trusted.

Meanwhile, it's essentially a marketing campaign to spend a lot on Opus 5, which I'm sure they'll claim is mythos distilled.

High art.

It's a jump, but we'll have the same from Spud in the coming weeks and the world won't fall apart.

Now for others, while they might not have as much acrimony towards what they view as a marketing strategy, there are still explorations of what other reasons Anthropic might have for not releasing this powerful model right now.

The AI Explained account writes, And there are a lot of folks who wonder if there is a piece of this here.

with it simply not being viable right now with cost and compute constraints to actually release a model of this scale and power.

Linahua certainly thinks that's it, writing, "...the whole mytho cybersecurity story is likely just a psyop to have an excuse to not serve frontier models to the public."

Reasoning, one, other labs can't distill it.

It's annoying when you have a dominant state-of-the-art model and two months later Chinese labs sell the same state-of-the-art model for 1 50th of the cost.

Two, compute constraints.

So you have to choose between enterprise and vibe coders.

Enterprise have like 1% monthly churn.

Vibe coders cry and threaten to have their mommy buy them a Mac Mini for local models whenever their rate limits are cut.

Three, big enterprises pay a hefty premium for slightly better performance and corporate polish.