Sam Altman Calls Anthropic's Mythos 'Fear-Based Marketing' — 'We Have Built a Bomb. We Will Sell You a Bomb Shelter for $100 Million'

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On the Core Memory podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly criticized Anthropic's positioning of Mythos as too dangerous to release, calling it a strategy to keep AI in the hands of an exclusive elite. His exact framing: 'It is clearly incredible marketing to say, We have built a bomb. We were about to drop it on your head. We will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million.' TechCrunch notes the irony given OpenAI's own history of existential-risk rhetoric used to market its products.