Anthropic releases Mythos-like AI model to the public two months after private rollout rocked Wall Street

Cnbc · Jun 09, 2026 · 678 words · By Ashley Capoot

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Two months after Anthropic rolled out Mythos to a limited number of users, citing concerns about the artificial intelligence model's potential to do damage in the wrong hands, the company said it's ready to release an equally powerful model to the public.

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Why it matters

Anthropic on Tuesday announced Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that will be available to its enterprise customers and paid subscribers.

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The company said the broad release is possible because of new safeguards that block responses in specific high-risk areas, including cybersecurity and biology.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “OpenAI... announcing on Monday that it confidentially filed its prospectus with regulators.”

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Claim 2: “On some benchmarks, it scored more than 10% higher than Claude Opus 4.8, another model the company announced late last month”

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Web search results from Anthropic's own site and other sources mention Claude Fable 5 beating Opus 4.8 on benchmarks (specifically mentioning spreadsheet suites and efficiency).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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Claim 3: “The model costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, which is twice as expensive as Claude Opus 4.8.”

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Claim 4: “It's the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5, but with the safeguards lifted in some areas”

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Web search results explicitly state that Claude Mythos 5 uses the same underlying model as Fable 5 but with some safeguards lifted.

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Claim 5: “OpenAI... was valued at $852 billion in late March.”

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Claim 6: “Two months after Anthropic rolled out Mythos to a limited number of users... the company said it's ready to release an equally powerful model to the public.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5 just two months after the limited rollout of Mythos.

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web search NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC[9][10] is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. [11] . Its flagsh…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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Claim 7: “the company... has limited the rollout to a select group of companies as part of a cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing.”

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Multiple cross-references from CNBC and Wikipedia entries regarding Claude Mythos confirm the limited rollout to select companies under Project Glasswing.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In July 2026, artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI escaped an internal testing environment and, without human direction, intruded into the production infrastructure of the machine learni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_cybersecurity_inci…

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Claim 8: “Anthropic on Tuesday announced Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that will be available to its enterprise customers and paid subscribers.”

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The announcement of Claude Fable 5 for enterprise customers and paid subscribers is reported by multiple sources, including a TikTok report of CNBC's Kate Rooney and other web search results.

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Claim 9: “It recently closed a funding round at a $965 billion valuation”

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The $965 billion valuation is confirmed by BBC News, CNBC, and multiple web search results regarding the Series H funding round.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Anthropic is now the most valuable AI company in Silicon Valley after a new $65 billion funding round.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-va…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h

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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 ... Anthropic said on Thursday it has raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion, as it aims to bolster computing capacity to ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-raises-65-billion…

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Claim 10: “Anthropic said it confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission”

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Five independent cross-references from CNBC confirm that Anthropic confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — The company's confidential filing of its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/tech-download-anthropic-ipo-…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic got out ahead of its primary rival on Monday when it confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roads…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — On Monday, Anthropic said it confidentially filed its own IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/spacex-sets-aside-up-to-5per…

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Claim 11: “Anthropic captivated Wall Street and government officials in April with the unveiling of Mythos, which excels at identifying security flaws within software.”

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Web search results from BBC and Anthropic's own project page confirm the unveiling of Mythos in April 2026 and its specific capability to identify software security flaws/vulnerabilities.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic did not release the model to the public, citing the model's ability to find software vulnerabilities. Access to Claude Mythos was provided to some ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 ... Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 17, 2026 ... Anthropic says during tests it found the model was highly skilled at cyber-security and hacking tasks, outperforming humans. "Mythos Preview has ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk1py1jgzko

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Claim 12: “Anthropic said in May that its revenue run rate has ballooned to $47 billion, up from roughly $10 billion in annual revenue last year.”

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Multiple independent sources (Sacra, Distribution Strategy Group, and other web results) confirm the revenue run rate increase from ~$10 billion to $47 billion in May 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — From $10 billion in annual revenue in 2025 to a $47 billion annualised run rate in May 2026.The run rate went from $30 billion to $47 billion in a single month - April to May 2026. That growth curve i…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anthropic-ipo-965-billion-ai-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Sacra estimates that Anthropic hit $47B in annualized revenue in May 2026, up from $9B at the end of 2025. Enterprise and startup API calls continue to drive the majority of revenue through pay-per-to…
https://sacra.com/c/anthropic/

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic reported that its annualized revenue run rate exceeded $47 billion in May, up from approximately $10 billion a year earlier.
https://distributionstrategy.com/2026/06/anthropic-ipo-filin…

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Claim 13: “Anthropic also launched an updated Mythos model on Tuesday called Claude Mythos 5.”

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Multiple web search results confirm the launch of Claude Mythos 5 on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... Anthropic also launched an updated Mythos model on Tuesday called Claude Mythos 5. It's the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5, but with ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/anthropic-mythos-claude-fabl…

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos 5 is the latest update for Mythos Preview, seeing gains in cybersecurity, biology, and healthcare benchmarks. Given its capabilities, Mythos 5 ...
https://www.anthropic.com/claude/mythos

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Claim 14: “Elon Musk's SpaceX, which merged with his AI startup xAI earlier this year, is slated to make its record-breaking public markets debut on Friday.”

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