The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud
About this episode
Dan and Chris discuss Anthropic's Mythos model, Allbirds' unexpected pivot to neocloud, and the rise of tokenmaxxing in AI development.
In this Fully-Connected episode, Dan and Chris start with Anthropic's Mythos frontier model, parsing what is publicly known about its cybersecurity capabilities and projecting its possible implications from " We've been here before. 🙄 " to "See ya, cybersecurity! 😱 " It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 🙃 Then they have fun with the craziest AI announcement of the year (except for the Mythos one of course). Allbirds pivots from shoe manufacturing 👟 to neocloud provider ☁️. No, we didn't see that one coming either! 🙈 They finish with rise of “tokenmaxxing” - the gamification 🎮 of writing code with maximum LLM usage. Incredibly profitable 💰 for commercial frontier model providers and insanely expensive 🤑 for the gamers. Better have 10X productivity just to avoid bankruptcy! Featuring: Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Links: Shares in Allbirds surge after maker of wool sneakers announces pivot to AI AI-boosted hacks with Anthropic’s Mythos could have dire consequences for banks Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here !
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Hosts: Dan, Chris
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Anthropic, Allbirds, AI, Bluesky, GitHub, LinkedIn
Products: Mythos
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