Comment by enraged_camel
2 hours ago
>> In a world where things such as GLM-5.3, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, and Kimi-K3 exists, this is a bit laughable.
Is it, though?
We don't know what Mythos is really capable of, beyond what Anthropic has told us, and some second-hand accounts from orgs that have been whitelisted.
What we do know is that their withholding it from the masses is causing a lot of harm to their reputation and general annoyance. And probably a lot of money as well, as those people cancel their subscriptions in favor of other models. They are about to IPO, and you don't want people to have a bad taste in their mouth during this critical period.
As such, I think it is reasonable conclude that there must in fact be very valid reasons for them to keep going down this path of gradual access-widening. I'm never going to blindly trust a corporation, but in this case I'm not going to hate on them either because, at the risk of repeating myself, we just don't have all the facts.
> Is it, though?
Yes, it truly is.
Open models are extremely capable, as benchmark after benchmark has indicated.
Beyond that, for the vast majority of software development (including cybersecurity), the open models are there already. All that without having to pay the hefty Anthropic premium, not to mention all their bullshit with pretending their model is some sort of WMD and their awful uptime (although, to their credit, they seem more stable than Github).
I cannot fathom why anyone uses their service.
As basically every subject matter expert has stated again and again, benchmarks do not tell reveal anything meaningful and have effectively no relation to the model's actual capabilities.