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OpenAI commits $1B of "subsidized access", i.e. commits essentially nothing (10% off on $10B of API purchases is $1B of subsidized access).
I'd say this is more disingenuous than Anthropic "committing up to $100M" in usage credits of Mythos, at a 5x Opus price that no one ever paid, as far as the public record goes (the price dropped to 2x Opus before Fable release).
(To be clear, these initiatives are great and I support them).
It's not well-specified and it does leave the door open for misuse, but I don't think it's misleading or disingenuous. I'm guessing the terms will end up being reasonable with heavy subsidization or free tokens.
For Anthropic's Mythos Preview access it's likely (IMO) that Mythos is a smaller distilled version of Mythos Preview that actually is cheaper to run.
1tchauvin
Do we have any evidence on Mythos being a distilled Mythos Preview?
Only circumstantial, and I think it's possible that Mythos is the same size as Mythos Preview.
Price drop
Maybe Anthropic took 3.5 months to release Mythos because they wanted to distill a cheaper version due to compute limitations
I had previously considered the price drop the strongest evidence, but that doesn't distinguish between the two hypotheses. I personally consider it more likely than not due to Anthropic's compute limitations but that's speculative.