Dave Lee, Columnist

Anthropic’s Capacity Pinch Cracks the Door for OpenAI

Feeling the crunch.

Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg 

When Anthropic PBC announced that its new model, Mythos, would have only a limited release because of the vast security risks, it reverberated across businesses and governments as the potential tipping point that many had predicted and feared.

But some skeptics wondered if something else might be going on. Was Anthropic limiting the use of this model because it simply couldn’t handle the additional demand?