alt Hacker News#1. It signals you’re ahead of the competition. This is an Claude moment. They turned down the DoD because they don’t need their money. Now they are saying why they don’t need it.
#2. It makes their partners with access feel extra special.
#3. Mythos doesn’t have to deliver on the hype. Tbh if more people tried opus they would be surprised at how good it is.
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ofjcihen • last Monday at 5:00 PM
#3 is part of my confusion with how they’re doing the marketing. It really is incredible.
drawfloat • last Monday at 7:44 PM
Didn’t GPT5 show there are pretty major risks to this strategy?
> #1. It signals you’re ahead of the competition. This is an Claude moment. They turned down the DoD because they don’t need their money. Now they are saying why they don’t need it.
Given all the shenanigans they've done to the point where Max users are running into limits they never have before, I think they need to tread carefully. Every other day I see more comments or threads of people just outright ditching Anthropic over this. I doubt many of the ChatGPT -> Claude crowd were on a Max plan.
I don't even think they need to show that they don't need DoD money though, they're not on the stock market.