Mythos is clearly a nice improvement. It’s also clear there’s a lot of unfounded hype around it to keep the AI hype cycle going.

Gating access is also a clever marketing move:

Option A: Release it but run out of capacity, everyone is annoyed and moves on. Drives focus back to smaller models.

Option B: A bunch of manufactured hype and putting up velvet ropes around it saying it’s “too dangerous” to let near mortals touch it. Press buys it hook, like, and sinker, sidesteps the capacity issues and keeps the hype train going a bit longer.

Seems quite clear we’re seeing “Option B” play out here.