5 Things To Know On Anthropic’s Claude Mythos And ‘Project Glasswing’

The AI platform is announcing an initiative focused on boosting software security involving a number of major industry players.

Anthropic announced Tuesday it has launched a new initiative, “Project Glasswing,” focused on boosting software security with involvement from a number of major industry players.

The initiative will leverage the preview version of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, the platform’s forthcoming frontier model, to assist with uncovering software vulnerabilities.

The launch of the Project Glasswing initiative comes after Anthropic debuted Claude Code Security in February, which represents the first dedicated security product from Anthropic.

What follows are five things to know on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and “Project Glasswing.”

Participating Companies

In addition to Anthropic, the Project Glasswing initiative will include participation from AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia and Palo Alto Networks.

The focus of the effort will be to “secure the world’s most critical software,” Anthropic said in a post announcing the initiative.

Anthropic said it’s committing as much as $100 million in usage credits for the preview version of Mythos for the effort.

Claude Mythos

The launch of the initiative comes in response to “capabilities we’ve observed in a new frontier model trained by Anthropic,” Claude Mythos, Anthropic said in the post. Anthropic believes that the deployment of those capabilities in Claude Mythos “could reshape cybersecurity.”

The AI platform described Claude Mythos as a “general-purpose, unreleased frontier model” that points to the fact that “AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.”

The preview version of Mythos “has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser,” Anthropic said.

Thus, Project Glasswing is “an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work for defensive purposes,” Anthropic said.

Activities For The Initiative

In connection with Project Glasswing, the participating launch partners utilize the preview version of Mythos “as part of their defensive security work,” Anthropic said in its post.

“Project Glasswing partners will receive access to Claude Mythos Preview to find and fix vulnerabilities or weaknesses in their foundational systems—systems that represent a very large portion of the world’s shared cyberattack surface,” Anthropic said. “We anticipate this work will focus on tasks like local vulnerability detection, black box testing of binaries, securing endpoints, and penetration testing of systems.”

Anthropic, meanwhile, “will share what we learn so the whole industry can benefit,” the company said—noting that it has also provided access to Mythos to more than 40 additional organizations that “build or maintain critical software infrastructure.”

Cybersecurity Partnerships

In addition to the involvement of major tech industry platforms, the Project Glasswing initiative also includes notable involvement from two standalone cybersecurity vendors, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks.

In a post on LinkedIn, CrowdStrike Co-founder and CEO George Kurtz wrote that it is now clear that “the more capable AI becomes, the more security it needs.”

This is among the reasons “why Anthropic chose CrowdStrike as a founding member of their security coalition for Claude Mythos Preview,” Kurtz wrote.

AI is “creating the largest security demand driver since the enterprises moved to the cloud. Claude Code is changing how people use computers. OpenClaw is set to reshape how enterprises automate,” he wrote.

At the same time, “Mythos may be the most capable frontier model yet. It won’t be the last,” Kurtz wrote in the post. “All of these AI innovations meet enterprises at the endpoint. That’s where they access data, make decisions, and also create risk.”

Industry Giants

Other industry giants that weighed in about the initiative Tuesday included AWS and Cisco.

In a post, AWS CISO Amy Herzog wrote that as part of Project Glasswing, “we’ve already applied Claude Mythos Preview to critical AWS codebases that undergo continuous AI-powered security reviews, and even in those well-tested environments, it’s helped us identify additional opportunities to strengthen our code.”

Cisco’s Anthony Grieco, meanwhile, wrote in a post that since the company began utilizing the preview version of Mythos, “what we have found has been illuminating.”

“Now the real work begins,” wrote Grieco, chief security and trust officer at Cisco. “AI-powered analysis uncovers data at a scale and depth that legacy frameworks were not designed to accommodate.”

Ultimately, “this industry will recalibrate together,” he wrote.