Claude Mythos Actually Escaped

What's up everyone? Apparently, Claude Code can hack every operating system in browser in the world. So, we are a little bit cooked. My name is Nuno and welcome to my channel. All right, before we dive to anything else, I honestly think this is probably the best marketing strategy I have seen all time from all models. If you think a little bit, all the models in the past, they obviously come with something like the best model yet. And people got tired of that story. So, what Anthropic did is literally telling everyone this model is so powerful that we cannot release it. Let's dive into all of this. Unlike the other models in the past, Anthropic didn't went with a big launch and instantly give access to everyone to this new model. What they did instead is release this press article, let's call it that way, where they actually talk about how this model was able to find bugs on software that is used all the round the world. They literally said they were able to hack every major operating system in the planet, [music] every major web browser in the entire planet, but also they were able to discover a 27-year-old vulnerability hiding in OpenBSD. Just to give you this the perspective, this operating system called an OpenBSD is the most safe operating system in the world. So, what is Claude Mythos to begin with? It's basically general purpose model, something like Claude Code Opus 4.6, which is literally targeted for coding, but it became so good at doing code that is also very good at cybersecurity. All right, so let's actually look at some numbers here. So, this is literally the benchmarking they did in case you don't know, SWE means actually solving coding problems, okay? Now, to solving like trivial coding problems, we can see that Claude Mythos is literally just 10% better than Claude Opus 4.6. Then we have Bench Pro, which is literally harder bugs to solve and we can see that Claude Mythos is literally 20% better than Claude Opus 4.6. [music] Now, all these two on top are actually benchmarks that run on Python, meaning that we have Python bugs that need to be solved. However, on this multi-lingual benchmark, we are running these models against various bugs written on various languages like Rust or PHP. And we can see that Claude Mythos is 10% better than Claude Opus 4.6. And then we have this Bench Multimodal, which is literally bugs that involve looking at images or screenshots. And on this area, Claude Mythos is actually a lot better than Claude Opus 4.6. Now, one last benchmark they have here is called a Terminal Bench 3.0, which is literally devops situations the models need to solve. And we can see that Claude Mythos is 17% better than Claude Opus 4.6. Now, while running these benchmarks, something really weird happened. So, basically, one of the researchers put it the Claude Code Mythos under a sandbox environment. So, in case you don't know, sandboard in sandbox environments under Anthropic are literally super secure environments with no internet access, with extra measures of security making sure the model cannot do anything. However, running a test on that sandbox environment, the model was still able to get internet access, to get out of the sandbox environment, and on top of it, email the original researcher about the success of his escape. This is nuts. Now, Claude Code internally got so scared of this model that it literally started an urgent initiative that grabs all the biggest companies in the world, especially companies running pieces of critical software, things like Apple, Microsoft, and Linux Foundation. And they give early access to all these companies, the early access to Mythos preview. And the goal of giving early access to Mythos is literally having Mythos running their testing against all this software, making sure things are good to go before the model go public. Now, something worth to consider is that five companies out of the 11 companies you see on this list are actually Anthropic investors. So, you know, this marketing thing also helps a little bit on having Anthropic going IPO, just saying. Now, one question you may have is how much more expensive this new model will be. And I was able to actually find out that there is plans to making this model five times more expensive than Opus 4.6. [music] Now, what all of this actually means and what Claude Mythos actually represents, in my opinion, we always have used models for coding, things like Claude Code Opus 4.6 and more. [music] And those models are actually great at coding. I'm having a blast and a very good experience with that. But now we are going to see models jumping as well into the cybersecurity world a little bit. Meaning that you are going to see models being used by the attackers, but also models being used by the defenders. So, probably people like us as software engineers, we are going to be running all these models against our code and also they will be able to find bugs for us and things that could be exploited. Now, this probably is giving you a lot of anxiety, it's giving myself some anxiety, too. But something you need to keep in mind is that these companies, they have massive investments on them. So, they need to keep the ball going. So, they will do whatever they can to hype their models more and more. Now, if you're scared of being hacked, I would advise you to just literally making sure all your software is up to date, operating system, major browsers, and whatever. Now, this is something you should do regardless of the public announcement of Mythos or not. Just making sure your software is up to date. But regarding the anxiety you may have, there is nothing you can actually do. So, I would advise you to just be scared about the future that you cannot control. And that's it for this video. If you enjoyed the breakdown, please go all the way down, subscribe, like the video. Get you guys next time. Peace out. Boom. And that was it.