Anthropic claims its new model is so awesome that they can't release it to the public.

Instead, Anthropic said on Tuesday, it will make the new model — known as Claude Mythos Preview — available to a consortium of more than 40 technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which will use the model to find and patch security vulnerabilities in critical software programs.

It is curious that most of the big AI companies rely so heavily on the apocalypse narrative. It's almost like they're trying to build a myth around their product.

The coalition, known as Project Glasswing, will include some of Anthropic’s competitors in A.I., such as Google, as well as hardware providers like Cisco and Broadcom, and organizations that maintain critical open-source software, such as the Linux Foundation. Anthropic is committing up to $100 million in Claude usage credits to the effort.

It does sounds plausible that Anthropic or some AI company could produce a new model that is really good at finding and exploiting bugs, but it's also a pretty good way to build hype about a new product -- especially in an industry that is full of constant hyping.

Anthropic said it had no plans to release its new technology more widely, but was announcing the new model’s capabilities in one area in particular — identifying security vulnerabilities in software — in an effort to sound the alarm over what the company believes will be a new, scarier era of A.I. threats.