A frontier AI company has a new tool that is simply too powerful for the general public and could upend cybersecurity as we know it. Sound familiar? Just days after Anthropic announced that it is rolling out its so-powerful-it’s-dangerous Mythos model to help other companies spot and fix security vulnerabilities, OpenAI has reportedly raised its hand and said, “Oh, we literally just remembered, we also have one of those.”
According to Axios, OpenAI is putting the finishing touches on a cybersecurity service that it plans to offer to a select set of partners, who will reportedly be able to use the tool to bolster their defenses. Axios specified that the release will be its own product, but will not be a new model, nor will it be related to the company’s planned upcoming release, Spud.
Beyond that, details are sparse. That doesn’t exactly disabuse anyone of the notion that OpenAI is playing the role of Mr. Me Too, just riding the coattails of its rival Anthropic to make sure it doesn’t get totally left behind in the hype cycle.
OpenAI has had its own cyber program for a bit now, offering partnerships through its “Trusted Access for Cyber” pilot that was made available following the release of GPT-5.3-Codex. Organizations admitted to the invitation-only program get access to “even more cyber capable or permissive models to accelerate legitimate defensive work.” But the company didn’t have the bright idea to position that product as something that will fundamentally reshape the cyber landscape as we know it, so now it’s got to remind everyone that Anthropic isn’t the only game in town.
We’ll see whether OpenAI can match some of Anthropic’s attention-grabbing claims, like spotting security flaws that evaded human detection for nearly three decades (boasts that may be exaggerated, as other security researchers have claimed to replicate some of the Mythos discoveries with other models). At this point, if the company can’t keep up with the actual achievements, it can at least aim to catch up to its rival’s marketing. Surely, a better option than having its CEO tell the world that it’ll take a year to add the ability for ChatGPT to run a timer.
To be fair to OpenAI, the company’s bread and butter when it comes to outlandish claims has been less about capabilities and more about profit—and it is still really putting on a show there. The company just recently forecast that it’ll hit $102 billion in advertising sales by 2030. (That intel comes from The Information, which touted the story as an “exclusive,” as well as Axios, which labeled it as a “scoop.” Sam Altman can be tricky.)
Given that it’s currently projecting just $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year and the early returns from partners have been pretty mixed, that is the type of shamelessly self-serving and potentially delusional hype that the company needs to tap to keep up with its competition.
