NIST has named the top U.S. models in their (full) report: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2026/07/17/CAISI...

Spoiler: it’s OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Mythos Preview [**].

[**] Reminder that Mythos Preview is a very different beast from Fable5, Mythos5, and Opus5. Unfortunately, anyone outside Project Glasswing will probably never get to test what this model can actually do, which is a shame, and it’s a big part of why the industry is so skeptical of the capabilities insiders keep claiming it has. I’d be skeptical too if I hadn’t tested it myself.

We lost access to Mythos Preview when Anthropic forced us onto Mythos 5 some weeks ago, which is garbage by comparison. I’ve already switched to GPT-5.5 and I’m working on adapting my harness(es) to less restrictive open-weight models. I don’t see any other way forward at this point.