Mythos Proves Potent in Vulnerability Discovery, Less Convincing Elsewhere
Mythos appears to be as powerful as claimed at detecting software vulnerabilities; but its capabilities in other areas is more nuanced.
Anthropic’s Mythos AI model has been making waves since its announcement in early April, primarily because of its reputed ability to unearth considerably more vulnerabilities than any other AI model. XBOW, an autonomous offensive security firm, has aimed its own AI testing armory against Mythos Preview to check the validity of this and other Mythos capabilities.
Anthropic’s primary claim is confirmed. “Mythos Preview presents a significant step up over all existing models, regardless of provider,” reports XBOW.
As Gary McGraw commented 20 years ago, operational defects occur in the interaction between source code bugs and architectural design flaws. “You can’t find design defects by staring at code – a higher-level understanding is required,” he said. XBOW tested Mythos against both access to the code alone, and the code operating...
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