On Monday, Anthropic released two new artificial intelligence models – Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2. At the same time, the company is preparing for what could be a milestone initial public offering (IPO), which may take place as early as next week.
Anthropic indicates that Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 are the company's most advanced products at present, with a generation speed 30% faster than their predecessors. The company also claims that the cost of these two models is 20% lower than that of the 5.1 generation, with a pricing of $8 per million inputs of token and $40 per million outputs of token.
This is the first time that Anthropic has released what it calls "cutting-edge" models since its CEO, Dario Amodei ( Dario Amodei ), called for a slowdown in the development pace of AI in September. Anthropic stated that these models have undergone rigorous security and alignment testing before release, and the company has also developed new evaluation methods and monitoring tools for post-launch monitoring for this release.
Anthropic Diana Payne, the person in charge of product management at Dianne Penn, said in an interview with CNBC: "What we are calling for is to control the pace, not to pause."
Anthropic must strike a balance between safe operations and intense commercial and competitive pressures. The company emphasized this tension in the lengthy section on risk factors in its prospectus at the end of last month. As executives prepare to launch the IPO roadshow for Anthropic, they also need to convince investors that their approach is correct.
As previously reported by CNBC, Anthropic hopes that the valuation of this issuance will reach $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, which is lower than the $2 trillion target that was circulated in recent months.
Anthropic was launched earlier than Mythos in April, and due to the advanced network security capabilities of this model, it was only made available to a few institutions. Two months later, the company released Fable – which is the publicly available version of Mythos – and added more protective measures.
These models – especially Mythos – have attracted the attention of Wall Street and government officials, and have also contributed to the rapid rise of Anthropic this year. The company stated in its revised prospectus that in the first nine months ending September 30, its revenue amounted to 33.24 billion US dollars, an increase of about 1200% compared to the same period last year.
Paine stated that Fable 5.2 is mainly aimed at “advanced users or high-intensity usage scenarios” because it performs exceptionally well in complex, open-ended technical tasks. She mentioned that other models released by Anthropic in September, such as Claude Opus 5.5, are more suitable for everyday tasks. Therefore, when users need to solve problems in the fields of engineering, mathematics, and robotics, they should turn to Fable 5.2.
Paine said, "These are all brand-new, completely novel things, and therefore they belong to cutting-edge use cases. We expect that over time, these capabilities might gradually be incorporated into models like Opus, but for now, we do see performance differences, and we believe that these cutting-edge use cases will benefit from them."
Anthropic indicates that Fable 5.2 has been fully launched on Monday, while Mythos 5.2 is available to approved institutions after passing the company's Life Sciences and Cybersecurity Verification Program.
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