Mythos

6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2026 by David Sacks · said 37 times in 9 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Jason Calacanis (20), David Sacks (13), Brad Gerstner (2), Gavin Baker (1), Chamath Palihapitiya (1)

tap a year for its mentions
0020540102026episodesmentions
05102026episodes it came up in
002.555102026episodesmentions per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Mythos, oldest first

Apr 17, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks claims Anthropic withheld Mythos AI model due to serving costs
“It's looking more and more like Anthropic could not have offered that model commercially anyway, because it was just too big and expensive and they needed to create space for Opus 4.7.”
David Sacks Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 32:09 OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out
May 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2026
Sacks: All frontier AI models will reach Mythos-level cyber capabilities in six months
“In fact, within six months or so, all the frontier models are going to have mythos level cyber capability, but it's impressive that open AI got this GPT, 5.5 cyber out so quickly.”
David Sacks May 1, 2026 ▶ 20:53 OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
May 1, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Anthropic is token-constrained and compute-gating Opus 4.7
“Anthropic is token constrained. It's reducing their ability to serve Mythos, for example. It's causing them to engage in compute gating.”
David Sacks May 1, 2026 ▶ 7:16 OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
Jun 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arora: AI found five years of software vulnerabilities in six weeks
“In six weeks we found vulnerabilities which would have normally taken us five to seven years to find.”
Nikesh Arora Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 2:55 Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks"
Jun 19, 2026 negative
What-if
Sacks: Releasing Anthropic's Mythos without guardrails would have caused massive liability
“The truth is that if he had released Mythos with no guardrails in April, he would have exposed the company to massive legal exposure because thousands of companies would have gotten hacked, and it would have been very easy to say that was a foreseeable consequ…”
David Sacks Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 1:12:15 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
Jul 11, 2026 negative
Assertion Open · timeframe Jul 2027
Gerstner: Z.ai's GLM-5.2 contains watermarks showing distillation from Mythos
“GLM 5.2 has watermarks from mythos all over it, right? So we know they were distilling, etc.”
Brad Gerstner Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 58:52 OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 460 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.