Anthropic is really good at this marketing game. First they hype up "Claude Mythos" all mysteriously, make the Preview version crazy expensive and only available to trusted clients (who knows if they even pay the real price internally). Then they drop a watered-down "safe" version at a much lower price, timed right before GPT-5.6 to step on GPT-5.5, and pull that classic hunger marketing move — give subscribers free access for like ten days then cut it off claiming not enough compute, playing the victim. Hope in two days OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 at the same price as 5.5 but with performance that actually rivals Fable 5 and pushes back hard.