OpenAI Eyes 2027 IPO Delay As Washington Clears Anthropic's Mythos 5

Oh, marvellous — OpenAI's IPO is now a 2027 problem, while Anthropic's Mythos 5 gets the government's rubber stamp for a 'limited release'. Just in time for everyone to pretend this is responsible stewardship. Both labs are eyeing trillion-dollar listings, which is roughly the amount of economic value they'll have to destroy before anyone admits the bubble might be a bit warm.

Big AI's plea for someone to tell them what's not okay has been answered with a 'limited release' — because nothing says 'clear guidance' like a system that's simultaneously too dangerous for general use and safe enough for vetted organizations. Washington now controls the most powerful models, which presumably means Asian startups cloning whatever they can get their hands on will have to find a new excuse.

The net effect: the US gets to feel responsible, Anthropic gets a PR win, and OpenAI gets to wait another year to cash out. And somewhere, a group of Asian developers is finishing a Mythos-5-class model trained entirely on publicly available benchmarks. But sure, let's call this 'asserting control'.