Nathaniel Whittemore

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But it should also be noted that ultimately those most skeptical takes are not the majority.

Most people's response is basically that Anthropic has earned the benefit of the doubt and the trust when it comes to things like what they say the benchmarks are, and so they're trying then to understand what the implications of a model this powerful existing really are.

A16Z's Martin Cassato writes,

Mythos appears to be the first class of models trained at scale on Blackwell's, then will be Vera Rubin's.

Pre-training isn't saturated, reinforcement learning works, and there is so much computing coming online soon.

Box's Aaron Levy writes, Mythos from Anthropic is another clear reminder that there is absolutely no wall in model capability progress right now.

Meaningful double-digit gains on critical benchmarks, and it appears we're going to keep getting insane gains from the other labs.

The capability slope we're going to keep seeing from the frontier labs is going to open up all new use cases in finance, healthcare, legal, consulting, supply chains, and more.

More tongue-in-cheek, former Trump AI advisor Dean Ball writes, Personally, I have really enjoyed relaxing after AI plateaued with GPT-5 last summer.

By the way, when I've said in the past that I think the people who are out there trying to convince others that AI isn't all that powerful are going to do more economic harm than the powerful AI models themselves, this is kind of what I'm referring to.

Now others are engaging deeply with safety considerations around the model.

Harlan Stewart, who works at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute at Berkeley writes, Anthropic is trying to prevent its powerful new AI from being used in dangerous ways, but the most dangerous use by a wide margin is the one Anthropic itself has planned.

The planned use, and why they made it to begin with, is to accelerate the creation of superhumanly powerful AI agents by automating the R&D process.

This plan is not a secret.

They believe they are on track to create a, quote, country of geniuses in a data center that would be powerful enough to, quote, militarily dominate the world if it chose to do so.

They believe they are on track to accomplish this in the next 12 months.

Let's hope they're wrong about those predictions, but let's do more than hope.

We urgently need governments to intervene and stop these companies.