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AI Business & IndustryTomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures)Published: Apr 12, 2026, 07:00 JST

Anthropic's $100M security initiative reveals that expensive frontier models aren't necessary for finding critical software vulnerabilities—cheaper alternatives perform equally well.

Anthropic's $100M security initiative reveals that expensive frontier models aren't necessary for finding critical software vulnerabilities—cheaper alternatives perform equally well.

Anthropic announced Mythos, a frontier model that discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg.

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