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Sam Altman Comments on Anthropic's Mythos Model in Podcast
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused competitor Anthropic of using fear-based marketing for its new cybersecurity model Mythos during a podcast this week. Anthropic announced Mythos earlier in April 2026 and released it to a small group of enterprise customers. Altman suggested the approach aims to limit AI access to a smaller group.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's new cybersecurity model Mythos during a podcast appearance this week, stating that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is. During an appearance on the podcast “Core Memory,” Altman implied that Anthropic’s “fear-based marketing” was a good way to keep AI in the hands of a small and exclusive elite.
“There are people in the world who, for a long time, have wanted to keep AI in the hands of a smaller group of people,” he said. ” “It is clearly incredible marketing to say, ‘We have built a bomb, we are about to drop it on your head. We will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million,’” he added.
TechCrunch reported these statements as part of ongoing exchanges between OpenAI and Anthropic.
Anthropic announced its cybersecurity model Mythos earlier in April 2026 and released it to a small cohort of enterprise customers. The company claimed that Mythos is too powerful to release to the public due to concerns that cybercriminals will weaponize it. The TechCrunch article detailing these events was posted at 11:51 AM PDT on April 21, 2026.
