Michael Cunningham

20yrs investing & building startups. Now building AI search systems

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@goodalexander @jonathan_wilke I find the apps even better terminals

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@saranormous @DavidSHolz We need more of this to negate the doomers

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@eastdakota Every focuses on the doom, but this is the type of innovation that AI creates and it benefits all of us.

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@scaling01 This is a significant halt in the timeline. The exponential is being at worst slowed down. Also, how will the next Fable 5 equivalent from another provider get approved ?

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

https://t.co/OgbCs1UMEm

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@midjourney These are the type of developments we need to keep the AI buildout on track. People need to see a real benefit and this is a great one.

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

These are the type of developments we need to keep the AI buildout on track. People need to see a real benefit and this is a great one.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@scaling01 Mythos/Fable is underhyped. It was an order of magnitude better than any previous model. Forget the gamed evals, the day to day performance was incredible.

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@Shekswess @GoogleDeepMind No chance they use off the shelf Gemini provided to the public...

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

Codex Investment banking plugin for SpaceX valuation....

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

Beginning the path to RSI

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

With Fable gone, everyone is optimizing for efficiency and cost. In reality, those who can access Mythos/Fable will win. Access is what matters

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

The US govt throttling Fable has to slow down AI momentum. If millions of people are prevented from paying for new models, how do these companies hit their revenue targets implied by trillion dollar valuations?

[Marlin @nostalgiafkninc]

This is how you become a trillionaire btw

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

Companies are spending trillions on building AI and everyone expects to access this intelligence for free or for $20/month?

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

Anthropic should enable Fable in Opus 4.8 Max and not tell anyone to see if anyone notices

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@zerohedge use https://t.co/ffQb6P8nzt to check the data

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

@DavidSacks So perplexing how Anthropic operates. Makes you think of the old nursery rhyme, “what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive”

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

Anthropic is so perplexing in how they operate

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Michael Cunningham @0xascale]

Updated statement from Anthropic. I guess Dario never learned, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" .

This is the important section: "To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the government. We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe. We will share more details over the next 24 hours.

We are complying with the government’s legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people. If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.

As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles." https://t.co/gqHZjkoUuW