Shown on the METR chart as able to work autonomously for about 16 hours.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos model line, listed alongside Fable as its most capable models for technical work.
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- What is Claude Mythos?
- Claude Mythos is a model from Anthropic. Anthropic's Claude Mythos model line, listed alongside Fable as its most capable models for technical work.
- Who makes Claude Mythos?
- Claude Mythos is made by Anthropic.
- Does Claude Mythos work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Claude Mythos cost?
- Pricing unknown. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was Claude Mythos shown?
- In 8 creator videos by Matthew Berman, Matt Wolfe. Most recently by Matthew Berman on 10 Sept 2026, at 14:46 in “We need to talk about this...”.
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Claude Mythos is a model from Anthropic. The Anthropic homepage currently lists "Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2" together as the company's most capable models for daunting technical work, with Fable 5.2 described as setting a new bar in coding, finance, and the sciences. The page gives no separate specifications for Mythos.
A YouTube creator (Matthew Berman) showed Mythos on the METR chart as able to work autonomously for about 16 hours. This is a secondhand characterisation of a time-horizon measurement, and it was not confirmed on the pages provided.
Details on access, pricing, context window, modalities and release date were not available in the material provided. Anthropic models are generally offered through its apps and API, but the specifics for Mythos are not confirmed here.
- Listed by Anthropic as one of its most capable models (Mythos 5.2)
- Aimed at demanding technical work
- Shown on the METR chart with roughly 16-hour autonomous task horizon (per a creator)
As seen on YouTube
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Shown on a graph of average steps completed in a 32-step cyber range benchmark, with Mythos preview and the full Mythos model improving over earlier generations, below GPT-5.6 Soul.
Anthropic's model with strong cybersecurity capabilities, shared in April only with select partners instead of the public. The creator cites it as the precedent for staggered releases.
First Mythos-class model, released in April only to a small group of cyber defenders and critical infrastructure providers via Project Glasswing.
Unreleased frontier model used internally at Anthropic since Q1. It achieved a 52x speedup on a research-loop test and staff estimated about 4x productivity with it. The creator argues keeping it internal is self-serving.
Anthropic's next-generation frontier model, strong at cybersecurity, which Anthropic has withheld from general release and made available only to chosen partner companies. The creator cites it as an example of Anthropic gatekeeping.
Anthropic says it plans to release a new class of model with higher intelligence than Opus in the coming weeks. It is currently in preview for cybersecurity work under Project Glasswing, pending stronger cyber safeguards.
Anthropic's roughly 10 trillion parameter model, strong at finding code vulnerabilities and hacking. It was released only to select partners under Project Glasswing. The creator says critics saw this as fear-based marketing or a sign of limited compute, and notes that a Chinese lab with such a model could use it for cyber offense.
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