Confusion reigns as corporate Australia waits for Mythos
Anthropic has finally granted Australia access to its most powerful AI model, but none of the nearly 40 companies and government agencies contacted by Capital Brief would confirm they had got it.
Some of the nation’s biggest companies including the big four banks and several key infrastructure providers are still waiting for clarity on when they will get access to Mythos after Anthropic opened up the bleeding-edge frontier AI model to Australia.
One day after it filed paperwork for a blockbuster IPO, Anthropic extended access to Mythos to 150 organisations worldwide, including in Australia, having previously limited it to a handful of American firms under its Project Glasswing program.
But Capital Brief has confirmed none of the big four banks have yet been granted entry, while national electricity grid operator Transgrid, corporate telco and data centre provider Macquarie Technology Group, health insurer Medibank and property and legal platform InfoTrack, all confirmed they had not been granted access.
Mythos, Anthropic’s most powerful release to date, is reputedly capable of finding decades-long cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exploiting them. The company told Capital Brief the decision had been made to keep tight constraints on the model, giving priority targets for cyber attacks early access to strengthen their defences.
