AI developer Anthropic says its newest Claude artificial intelligence model is so good at finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities that it’s not releasable to the public. The company is instead providing the tool to big tech infrastructure providers so they can patch the flaws it finds.
In late March, word began to leak that Anthropic’s latest AI model, dubbed Claude Mythos (PDF), was going to be a leap forward for the company’s AI technology. Now, the company has previewed its capabilities and warned that Mythos represents a major cybersecurity threat, as its capabilities represent a leap forward in finding and exploiting online security vulnerabilities.
“AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities,” the company said in a blog post Tuesday. Anthropic said Mythos Preview, which has not been released to the public, has already found what it says are thousands
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