Sam Schechner

The new model that Anthropic released Tuesday is an update to the Mythos model that the company first put out in April and said was too dangerous to release widely.

And so what they did is they added pretty intense restrictions to what it can do to help mitigate those risks.

And some users definitely reacted poorly to it.

Yeah, I think we've seen models sort of redirect conversations before.

But what really rankled people, especially in the academic AI area and in the open source AI field, was that Anthropic said that it would degrade the quality of its responses about high-end AI development.

intentionally to make it less useful for developers looking to build AI tools.

The justification for this was national security and its own terms of service, that you're not supposed to use the AI that way, and that others who are not scrupulous might build AIs without the same restrictions that Anthropic builds.

But, you know, users reacted with intense frustration.

They said it was gatekeeping.

They were trying to harm potential competitors and muddying just general AI research into the capability of Fable and Anthropic actually reversed part of these safeguards after the outcry.

And so instead of silently degrading Fable's ability to do high-end AI research, it simply will tell users that it's not going to do that.

That was journal tech reporter Sam Schechner.

Raising cash from public markets can help it finance those commitments.

At the same time, it means that investors are going to get a lot more detail and are going to be able to scrutinize whether its revenue is growing fast enough to make good on those commitments.

So this is both a super important way for them to raise capital, but it could be a double-edged sword.

What we do know is that they are in an intense competitive race.

Anthropic recently surpassed OpenAI's private valuation.

They are pulling ahead with business customers.

OpenAI still has the bigger chat GPT consumer business, but it's a really tight race.

And banks have told these two companies that whoever is first to the public markets could get the lion's share of the money from those markets.