Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder

Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it’s needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models

Chinese cybersecurity vendor Qihoo 360 claims it’s built an AI bug-finder that’s better than Anthropic’s Mythos model.

CEO Zhou Hongyi revealed the model in a speech at the 14th Beijing Cybersecurity Conference, which Qihoo 360 organizes. Chinese media outlets have transcribed the talk, in which Zhou described Mythos as “equivalent to a ‘cyber nuclear weapon’,” because the USA’s ban on foreign nationals accessing the model gives America a tool with which to find flaws in software upon which other nations rely.

Zhou thinks China needs equivalent capabilities as a deterrent, but suggested replicating Mythos is not a viable approach.

“Mythos follows a typical large-scale model approach: the strongest model, the strongest computing power, and the strongest chips – a strategy of sheer brute force,” he said. “However, this path has an implicit prerequisite:...

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