Since the release of ChatGPT, at any given time, anyone on the planet with a few bucks could access the current most capable AI model, the SOTA.
I do think you are correct that what is going on with Mythos strongly suggests that AI companies will be more likely to withhold models and/or capabilities in the future, and that this is potentially very concerning.
On the other hand, I’m not sure that the quoted statement is strictly true. AI companies may have internal “helpful only” models or internal models with fewer safeguards that aren’t made publicly available. Likewise with everything that is going down between Anthropic and the current admin we know that they made available a special system (“Claude Gov”) to the military, which presumably has fewer safeguards compared to publicly available models.
I do think you are correct that what is going on with Mythos strongly suggests that AI companies will be more likely to withhold models and/or capabilities in the future, and that this is potentially very concerning.
On the other hand, I’m not sure that the quoted statement is strictly true. AI companies may have internal “helpful only” models or internal models with fewer safeguards that aren’t made publicly available. Likewise with everything that is going down between Anthropic and the current admin we know that they made available a special system (“Claude Gov”) to the military, which presumably has fewer safeguards compared to publicly available models.