| Misalignment in high-stakes settings (Autonomy threat model 1) | |
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| Threat model | An AI model with access to powerful affordances within an organization could use its affordances to autonomously exploit, manipulate, or tamper with that organization’s systems or decision-making in a way that raises the risk of future significantly harmful outcomes (e.g. by altering the results of AI safety research). |
| Current usage and capabilities | Claude Mythos 5 and Model 2 are used2 heavily within Anthropic for coding, data generation, and other agentic use cases. Mythos 5 is available to certain customers via Project Glasswing, and available for general access with additional safeguards as Claude Fable 5. We believe that it is very unlikely that Mythos 5 and Model 2 are pervasively misaligned in ways that would raise the risk of our priority pathways. We have observed instances of misaligned behavior from the models, such as a willingness to perform misaligned actions in service of completing difficult tasks. We believe the risk of catastrophic harm posed by these known forms of misalignment is low. |
| Current risk mitigations | Training environment de-risking and monitoring, alignment assessments, monitoring and security controls. |
| Looking forward | Our current arguments rely on models’ limited covert capabilities, and we are uncertain about how these capabilities will change in future. It is important that we continue to improve our ability to measure these capabilities, and our ability to assess and control risk even if future models do have strong covert capabilities. |
| Overall risk assessment | Low (an increase from our previous assessment of “very low," in light of general increased uncertainty around recent incident disclosures related to model behavior in cybersecurity evaluations). |
| Automated research and development in key domains (Autonomy threat model 2) | |
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| Threat model | Highly capable AI models may be able to perform automated research and development (R&D) that rapidly accelerates progress in technical fields. While there could be enormous benefits, these benefits would come with corresponding risks. If under human control, this acceleration could disrupt the balance of power both within and between nations; if combined with dangerous autonomous goals from AI, this could lead to catastrophic harms initiated by AI systems themselves. Rapid automated R&D in the field of AI research is of particular interest because of the potential to produce a variety of further AI-related risks. |
| Current usage and capabilities | Mythos 5 and Model 2 are used extensively for research and engineering within Anthropic, both interactively and via persistent agent deployments; Claude now authors a large majority of the code merged into our production codebases. We believe our internal AI R&D efforts are significantly faster than they would be without AI assistance, but not yet by a factor of 2 (though we are uncertain and measurement is difficult). |
| Current risk mitigations | This is a broad threat model. The risk mitigations it calls for overlap heavily with those listed elsewhere in this report: assessing and avoiding dangerous forms of misalignment, building increasingly robust safeguards against misuse, leveling up our information security, and more. We don’t meet these goals yet, though we have made significant progress toward each of them. |
| Looking forward | We continue to work on improving risk mitigations across the board, including those outlined in our Frontier Safety Roadmap. We also hope to improve our assessment of the risks of R&D acceleration by continuing to identify potential leading indicators of acceleration. |
| Overall risk assessment | Low. We do not believe our models meet either RSP criterion for this threat model. However, we are less confident in this assessment than we were in prior risk reports, since our most concrete task-based evaluations have “saturated”—i.e., no longer capture increases in models’ capabilities—and because we are seeing early signs of acceleration. |
| Non-novel chemical/ biological weapons production | Novel chemical/ biological weapons production | |
|---|---|---|
| Threat model | Individuals or small groups with limited resources use AI models to gain access to non-novel chemical or biological (CB) weapons, leading to the risk of catastrophic harm. | Moderately resourced threat actors (including, for example, expert-backed teams) create/obtain and deploy novel chemical and/or biological weapons with potential for catastrophic damages even beyond those associated with the CB-1 threat model. |
| Current usage and capabilities | We still have significant uncertainty about the level of risk actually posed by our models, but their performance on evaluations is strong enough that we currently act as though they meet our CB-1 threshold of being able to significantly help the relevant threat actors create/obtain and deploy chemical and/or biological weapons with serious potential for catastrophic damages. | We believe our models may provide significant uplift to relevant threat actors, but do not yet meet our CB-2 threshold of functionally substituting for the scarce human expertise that is currently the primary barrier to novel development of chemical and biological weapons with potential for catastrophic harm. |
| Current risk mitigations | Real-time blocking classifiers assessed via bug bounties and other red-teaming; remediation of jailbreaks we find; manual vetting of users with CB safeguard exemptions; searching for widely available universal jailbreaks; and controls to prevent theft of model weights. | Similar measures to those in the previous column. We have extended the scope of coverage for our classifiers for better coverage of this threat model. For our Fable 5 model, we have even broader coverage of our blocking classifiers. |
| Looking forward | Capabilities evaluations; continual reassessment and improvement of all risk mitigations. | Capabilities evaluations; continual reassessment and improvement of all risk mitigations. |
| Overall risk assessment | Low, but higher than our previous estimate due to the gap in our access controls for models without blocking classifiers3 described in Section 4.5.8.2.2. We have since remediated this gap, and our review found no evidence of misuse, but the discovery has reduced our confidence that no similar gaps exist. | Low risk, but with substantial uncertainty. |
| RSP v3.0 threshold | Current RSP threshold |
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| Our working operationalization is to trigger this risk threshold at the point where we determine that a model could compress two years of 2018 – 2024 AI progress into a single year. | We will consider this threshold to be met if we determine that either (1) our models would be able to fully substitute for our entire set of Research Scientists and Research Engineers, at competitive costs (i.e., within a factor of 5); or (2) there is “dramatic acceleration” of the pace of AI progress for reasons that likely relate to the automation of AI R&D. We would consider scenario (2) to have occurred where (a) we observe or expect double the rate of progress4 in AI aggregate capabilities compared to both the rate we’d expect and the fastest rate of extended progress5 we’ve observed in the absence of significant AI contributions to AI R&D and (b) it is plausible that this doubling is substantially attributable to the automation of research and/or engineering (as opposed to other factors, such as increased headcount, compute, or general productivity), such that continuation of the trend in AI progress seems likely to lead to even greater acceleration. |
| RSP v3.0 threshold | Current RSP threshold |
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| Novel chemical/biological weapons production. AI systems with the ability to significantly help threat actors (for example, moderately resourced expert-backed teams) create/obtain and deploy chemical and/or biological weapons with potential for catastrophic damages far beyond those of past catastrophes such as COVID-19. | Novel chemical/biological weapons production. AI systems that can functionally substitute for the scarce human expertise that is currently the primary barrier to novel development of chemical and biological weapons with potential for catastrophic harm.6 That is, a well-resourced team7 could, using the model, accomplish the end-to-end agent design and deployment (including, as relevant, agent design, verification and validation, formulation, and dissemination) that would otherwise8 require recruiting one of a small number9 of world-leading specialists. |
| Threat model | An AI model with access to powerful affordances within an organization could use its affordances to autonomously exploit, manipulate, or tamper with that organization’s systems or decision-making in a way that raises the risk of future significantly harmful outcomes (e.g. by altering the results of AI safety research). |
| Overall risk assessment | Low. We’re reviewing recent incident disclosures related to model behavior in cybersecurity evaluations, and are currently working on updating our threat models and risk assessment methodologies in light of this. We believe that the arguments presented below likely still support a designation of “very low” risk, but we are raising our assessed risk to “low” to reflect increased overall uncertainty. |
| Relevant AI models | We focus our analysis on Claude Mythos 5 and Model 2, our most capable and most commonly internally used models. |
| Current usage, capabilities and propensities | Claude Mythos 5 and Model 2 are used10 heavily within Anthropic for coding, data generation, and other agentic use cases. Mythos 5 is available to certain customers via Project Glasswing, and available for general access with additional safeguards as Claude Fable 5. We believe that it is very unlikely that Mythos 5 and Model 2 are pervasively misaligned in ways that would raise the risk of our priority pathways. We have observed instances of misaligned behavior from the models, such as a willingness to perform misaligned actions in service of completing difficult tasks. We believe the risk of catastrophic harm posed by these known forms of misalignment is low. |
| Current risk mitigations | Training environment de-risking and monitoring, alignment assessments, monitoring and security controls. |
| Looking forward | Our current arguments rely on models’ limited covert capabilities, and we are uncertain about how these capabilities will change in future. It is important that we continue to improve our ability to measure these capabilities, and our ability to assess and control risk even if future models do have strong covert capabilities. See Section 2.21 for further discussion. |
| Type of misalignment | Probability of occurrence | Expected harm (pre-mitigation), conditional on occurrence | Fraction of harm expected to go unmitigated, conditional on occurrence | Overall risk |
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| Known11 misalignment | High (observed) | Low | Low | Low |
| Unknown severe pervasive misalignment | Very low | Potentially high | Somewhat low | Low |
| Unknown severe context-dependent misalignment | Low | Moderate | Low | Low |
| Evaluation | Positive rate after 1st stage | Positive rate after 2nd stage filtering |
|---|---|---|
| Misaligned Model Organisms from Treutlein 2026 (conversation) | 3/3 | 1/3 |
| Shade-Arena conversations, CoT only, selected for stealthiness | 100% | 72% |
| Shade-Arena conversations, CoT only, ablating direct discussion of a side goal from CoTs | 95% | 92% |
| Synthetic Chains-of-Thought (single-completion) | 72% | 29% |
| Monitored internal traffic (lower is better) | 0.74% | 0.004% |
| Evaluation | Positive rate (Opus 4.6 monitor, early Mythos 5 internal deployment) | Positive rate (Opus 4.8 monitor, current internal deployment) | Positive rate (Opus 4.6 monitor + second-stage filter, current internal deployment) | Positive rate (Opus 4.8 monitor + second-stage filter, current internal deployment) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| METR Red Teaming Exercise, all attacks (n=163) | 78% | 94% | 62% | 79% |
| 5 Internal Red-Teaming transcripts, made by humans during an exercise | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3/5 | 4/5 |
| Synthetic transcripts engaging in dangerous or scheming behavior | 96% | 96% | 73% | 80% |
| Internal Evaluation set (superset of previous two rows) | 87% | 87% | 62% | 72% |
| Internal Evaluation set + 200k prepended benign Tokens | 80% | 89% | 64% | 69% |
| Internal Evaluation set + 400k prepended benign tokens | 80% | 84% | 59% | 69% |
| SHADE-Arena side-task attempts with full extended thinking for Opus 4.5 | 100% | 100% | 45% | 70% |
| SHADE-Arena side-task attempts with discussion of a side goal ablated from extended thinking for Opus 4.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% | 92% |
| MonitorBench Hard (n=60 sample) | 92% | 92% | 77% | 87% |
| MonitorBench Hard (n=60 sample) + 200k tokens of benign transcript before | 72% | 83% | 58% | 75% |
| MonitorBench Hard (n=60 sample) + 200k tokens of benign transcript before and 200k tokens of benign transcript after (less analogous to our setup, since we run the monitor many times in a single transcript) | 48% | 77% | 37% | 63% |
| SLEIGHT-Bench | 23% | 58% | 14% | 44% |
| Monitored internal traffic (lower is better) | ~0.4% | ~0.2% | ~0.04% | ~0.1% |
| Threat model | Highly capable AI models may be able to perform automated research and development (R&D) that rapidly accelerates progress in technical fields. Although there could be enormous benefits from this, these would come with corresponding risks. Under human control, such acceleration could disrupt the balance of power both within and between nation states. If combined with an AI system pursuing dangerous goals of its own, it could lead to catastrophic harm initiated by the AI itself. Rapid automated R&D in the field of AI research is of particular interest because of the potential to produce a variety of further AI-related risks. |
| Overall risk assessment | Low. We do not believe our models meet either RSP criterion for this threat model. However, we are less confident in this assessment than we were in prior risk reports, since our most concrete task-based evaluations have “saturated”—i.e., they no longer capture increases in models’ capabilities—and because we are seeing early signs of potential acceleration. |
| Relevant AI model(s) | When considering whether our models can fully automate the work of our Research Scientists and Research Engineers, we focus on Claude Mythos 5, Claude Mythos Preview, and Model 2, our most capable models as of the coverage date. When considering whether our models can dramatically accelerate our AI R&D work, we consider the entire trajectory of our model development, since the threat concerns the rate of progress rather than the properties of any single model. We also consider the possibility of automated or dramatically accelerated R&D in other domains via expert interviews in Section 3.6; these reflect usage of Claude Mythos Preview and Mythos 5 (in the case of our internal experts) and publicly-available models from a mixture of AI companies roughly comparable to Opus 4.7 or Opus 4.8 (in the case of external experts). |
| Current usage and capabilities | Claude Mythos 5 and Model 2 are used extensively for research and engineering within Anthropic, both interactively and via persistent agent deployments; Claude now authors a large majority of the code merged into our production codebases. Our Responsible Scaling Policy specifies two criteria for this threshold. At present, neither of these have been met. First, our Mythos-class models do not seem close to fully substituting for our full staff of Research Scientists and Research Engineers. Second, we have observed some acceleration of AI progress, and believe that AI assistance with R&D is providing significant speedups to our research efforts, but (we believe) not to a degree that doubles our overall rate of progress beyond that which we saw prior to such AI assistance. |
| Current risk mitigations | This is a broad threat model. The risk mitigations it calls for are broad and overlap heavily with those listed elsewhere in this report: assessing and avoiding dangerous forms of misalignment, building increasingly robust safeguards against misuse, leveling up our information security, and more. We don’t believe our current risk mitigations are sufficient to keep risks low in a world of highly automated or dramatically accelerated R&D. |
| Looking forward | We continue to work on improving risk mitigations across the board, including those outlined in our Frontier Safety Roadmap. We also hope to improve our assessment of the risks of R&D acceleration by continuing to identify and report on potential leading indicators of such acceleration. |
| Capability or usage threshold | Substantive standards for model developers |
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Automated R&D in key domains. AI systems that can fully automate, or otherwise dramatically accelerate, the work of large, top-tier teams of human researchers in domains where fast progress could cause threats to international security and/or rapid disruptions to the global balance of power—for example, energy, robotics, weapons development, and AI itself. | A frontier developer should make a strong argument that:
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| CB-1 threat model | CB-2 threat model | |
|---|---|---|
| Threat model | Individuals or small groups with limited resources use AI models to gain access to non-novel chemical or biological (CB) weapons, leading to the risk of catastrophic harm. | Moderately resourced threat actors (including, for example, expert-backed teams) create/obtain and deploy novel chemical and/or biological weapons with potential for catastrophic damages even beyond those associated with the CB-1 threat model. |
| Overall risk assessment | Low risk, but higher than previously estimated due to a recently discovered gap in our safeguards that affected us for nearly a year. We have remedied the issue and have no evidence that it was used for chemical and biological misuse, but its existence leads us to believe that there is an increased likelihood of other, similar vulnerabilities unknown to us. More below. | Low risk, but with substantial uncertainty. |
| Relevant AI model(s) | We have a number of relevant models with different capability levels and risk mitigations, summarized in a table below. | |
| Current usage and capabilities | We still have significant uncertainty about the level of risk actually posed by our models, but their performance on evals is strong enough that we currently act as though they meet our CB-1 threshold of being able to significantly help the relevant threat actors create/obtain and deploy chemical and/or biological weapons with serious potential for catastrophic damages. | We believe our models may provide significant uplift to relevant threat actors, but do not yet meet our CB-2 threshold of functionally substituting for the scarce human expertise that is currently the primary barrier to novel development of chemical and biological weapons with potential for catastrophic harm. |
| Current risk mitigations | Real-time blocking classifiers assessed via bug bounties and other red-teaming; remediation of jailbreaks we find; manual vetting of users with safeguard exemptions; searching for widely available universal jailbreaks; and controls to prevent theft of model weights. | Similar measures to those in the left column. We have extended the scope of coverage for our classifiers for better coverage of this threat model. For our Fable 5 model, we have even broader coverage of our blocking classifiers. |
| Looking forward | Capabilities evaluations; continual reassessment and improvement of all risk mitigations. | Capabilities evaluations; continual reassessment and improvement of all risk mitigations. |
| Evidence type | Evaluation/evidence description | Claude Mythos 5 performance |
|---|---|---|
| Expert red-teaming57 | Internal and external panels of domain experts probed the model across the full biological and chemical weapon development pipeline, scoring uplift and feasibility on standardized rubrics with emphasis on whether the model could substitute for scarce specialized expertise. | Experts described the model as the strongest they have evaluated; two biology experts rated it comparable to or exceeding a knowledgeable specialist, and several independently reported it supplying work they would otherwise have sought from a specialist consultant. |
| Beneficial red-teaming tabletop exercise | We paired PhD biologists with dedicated LLM experts to design an end-to-end biological resistance strategy against a hypothetical engineered agricultural pathogen. Some participants had generalist biological expertise while others were world-leading domain specialists. | Two of three generalist teams outperformed all three specialist teams on both scientific quality and feasibility. Expert graders estimated the strategies and implementation protocols would have taken 40–95 working days to produce without AI tools; the two-person teams accomplished this in 16 hours. |
| Catastrophic biological scenario uplift trial18 | Uplift trial with five three-person teams tasked with constructing biological scenarios with catastrophic potential. Outputs were graded by external domain experts against a standardized uplift rubric. | Non-expert teams reported moderate-to-high uplift across most pipeline steps; they were strongest in delivery and dissemination, and weakest in acquisition and production. All five teams converged on the same primary agent class, and all plans had critical gaps. |
| Black-box RNA sequence modeling and design | Sequence modeling and design challenge developed with Dyno Therapeutics. Models are given a small experimental dataset of sequences and (unlabeled) numerical scores and asked to (1) predict the scores of held-out RNA sequences (2) design novel high-scoring sequences. Performance is compared to that of historical human participants from the leading edge of the US labor market. | Reliably exceeded the 90th percentile of human performance (but did not exceed the top human performance) on prediction. Median design score fell between the 75th and 90th percentile of human performance, and slightly exceeded the best human participant in one of eight trials. |
| AAV capsid packaging prediction | Models are given 1000 unpublished AAV capsid sequences modified with short insertion sequences curated by Dyno Therapeutics. The models are then asked to give a probability for whether each modified sequence will correctly assemble into a functional capsid, and assessed across several settings with different machine learning tools available for use. | Claude Mythos 5 achieved the highest median AUROC among all models tested, and had particularly stable performance across conditions (rather than becoming confused by potentially misleading training data, as occurred with many previous models). |
| Evidence type | Evaluation/evidence description | Model performance |
|---|---|---|
| Expert red-teaming (conducted on Opus 4.7)58 | Nine experts assessed whether the model could function as a domain expert in highly specialized areas of biology—particularly virology and microbiology—in ways that could meaningfully accelerate biological threats. | 6/9 biology experts assigned an uplift score at 2 on a 0–4 scale, representing “specific, actionable info." Two experts rated the model at 3 (comparable to consulting a knowledgeable specialist), and one rated it between 2 and 1 (rudimentary synthesis of the published record); no expert assigned the highest rating (rare, crucial insights comparable to world-leading expert). |
| Creative biology uplift trial (conducted on Opus 4.6) | PhD-level experts tasked with producing detailed reports on novel biological workflows. | No example was uniformly concerning for all experts. (Some examples were found concerning by some experts.) |
| Virology protocol uplift trial (conducted on Opus 4.6) | PhD-level experts tasked with determining a step-by-step protocol for reconstructing a challenging virus. Designed by Deloitte. | Average number of critical failures: 6.6 (rule-out criterion: ≥ 1.8). |
| Black-box RNA sequence modeling and design | Sequence modeling and design challenge developed with Dyno Therapeutics. Models are given a small experimental dataset of sequences and (unlabeled) numerical scores and asked to (1) predict the scores of held-out RNA sequences (2) design novel high-scoring sequences. Performance is compared to that of historical human participants from the leading edge of the US labor market. | Opus 4.8 reliably exceeded the 90th percentile human performance at the overall prediction task, exceeding Mythos Preview’s score, though it did not exceed the top human performance. Its median design score was slightly worse than the 75th percentile of human performers. However, on the subset of predictions for the few highest-scoring sequences, which we think better tracks realistic threat models for this kind of task, Opus 4.8 performed worse than several recent models, including Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6. We discuss this further in Section 2.2.6 of the Opus 4.8 System Card. |
| AAV capsid packaging prediction | Models are given 1000 unpublished AAV capsid sequences modified with short insertion sequences curated by Dyno Therapeutics. The models are then asked to give a probability for whether each modified sequence will correctly assemble into a functional capsid, and assessed across several settings with different machine learning tools available for use. | Opus 4.8 performed substantially worse than Mythos Preview across all settings, and underperformed somewhat when given the option of using a public data corpus less helpful for the task (though less so than earlier models like Opus 4.6). Opus 4.6 performed better than Opus 4.8 on the settings without access to this less-helpful dataset. |
| Model | Description | Robustness | Exemptions program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Mythos 5 | Our most capable externally deployed model | Level 3 | None as of this writing |
| Claude Fable 5 | Mythos 5, deployed with additional safeguards to a wider audience | Level 3 | None as of this writing |
| Claude Mythos Preview | Legacy Mythos-class model, not widely deployed | Level 3 | None as of this writing |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Our most capable model without higher-coverage bio classifiers offered widely to consumers as of the coverage date | Level 3 | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Legacy model | Level 3 | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Major commercial model that is roughly equivalent to Claude Opus 4.8 with respect to CB-relevant capabilities | Level 3 | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Legacy model | Level 2 (with some product surfaces at Level 1) | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Legacy model | Level 2 (with some product surfaces at Level 1) | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Legacy model | Level 2 (with some product surfaces at Level 1) | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Legacy model | Level 2 (with some product surfaces at Level 1) | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Legacy model | Level 1 | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Opus 4 | Legacy model | Level 1 | Bioclassifier Exemption Policy |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Our most capable model in risk-relevant domains not subject to real-time classifiers for this threat model | N/A (no blocking classifiers) | N/A |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Major commercial model that is cheaper than Claude Sonnet 5 | N/A (no blocking classifiers) | N/A |
| Other legacy models (see full list in appendix) | Older legacy models | N/A (no blocking classifiers) | N/A |
| Capability or usage threshold | Substantive standards for model developers |
|---|---|
| Non-novel chemical/biological weapons production. AI systems with the ability to significantly help individuals or groups with basic technical backgrounds (e.g., undergraduate STEM degrees) create/obtain and deploy chemical and/or biological weapons with serious potential for catastrophic damages. | A frontier developer should make a strong argument that individual users and relatively small teams will not become significantly more likely to cause catastrophic harm via their usage of product surfaces or via theft of model weights. This will likely require:
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| Novel chemical/biological weapons production. AI systems that can functionally substitute for the scarce human expertise that is currently the primary barrier to novel development of chemical and biological weapons with potential for catastrophic harm.78 That is, a well-resourced team79 could, using the model, accomplish the end-to-end agent design and deployment (including, as relevant, agent design, verification and validation, formulation, and dissemination) that would otherwise80 require recruiting one of a small number81 of world-leading specialists. | A frontier developer should make a strong argument that threat actors will not become significantly more likely to cause the sort of catastrophic harm discussed in the lefthand column via their usage of product surfaces or via theft of model weights. This will likely require similar measures to those from the previous row, but to a higher standard—to the point where even well-resourced and -staffed threat actors would be unlikely to reliably jailbreak models or cause catastrophic harm via unauthorized access to or modification of models (including via stolen or modified model weights). This would likely mean security roughly in line with RAND SL4, but it depends on the capabilities of the strongest and most plausible threat actors that are not bound by a credible governance regime enforcing the recommendations for industry-wide safety outlined here. |
| Model name or category | Brief description | Surfaces | Usage notes | Capability notes | Alignment notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Mythos 5 | Frontier model with limited external availability | Limited availability to approved customers via the invitation-only Project Glasswing program; extensively deployed internally | Used extensively within Anthropic for research and engineering, both interactively and via persistent agent deployments; limited external usage by approved customers | Our most capable externally deployed model, our most capable model overall in some domains | See the Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5 System Card |
| Claude Fable 5 | Same model weights as Mythos 5, deployed with higher-coverage safeguards (see Section 4.5.2.2) | Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, 1P (direct service from Anthropic) | General-purpose model with many users and many use cases | Our most capable widely released model | See the Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5 System Card |
| Claude Mythos Preview | Legacy Mythos-class model, not widely deployed | Invitation-only access via the Project Glasswing program | Limited usage | Broadly similar to other Mythos-class models on risk-relevant evaluations, though Claude Mythos 5 appears more capable (see Section 4.4.3) | See the Claude Mythos Preview System Card |
| Internal Model 1 | Legacy Mythos-class model, not externally deployed. | Internal-only | Limited usage, declining over time | Broadly similar to other Mythos-class models, generally dispreferred to Mythos 5 internally | Less extensive assessment, but broadly comparable to our other production models. |
| Internal Model 2 | Mythos-class model, not externally deployed. | Internal-only | Internal usage similar to Mythos 5 | More capable than Mythos 5 in some areas, less capable in others; overall slightly more capable. | Less extensive assessment, but broadly comparable to our other production models. |
| Claude Opus 5 | Major commercial model | Internal-only as of the coverage date (now widely released) | Moderate internal usage as of the coverage date | Generally less capable than Mythos 5. | See the Claude Opus 5 System Card |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Major commercial model | Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, 1P (direct service from Anthropic) | General-purpose model with many users and many use cases | Our most capable model without research biology classifiers offered widely to consumers as of the coverage date | See the Claude Opus 4.8 System Card |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Major commercial model | Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, 1P (direct service from Anthropic) | General-purpose model with many users and many use cases | Roughly equivalent to Claude Opus 4.8 with respect to CB-relevant capabilities (see Section 4.3); less capable than Claude Mythos 5 | See the Claude Sonnet 5 System Card |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Major commercial model | Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, 1P (direct service from Anthropic) | General-purpose model with many users and many use cases | Less capable and cheaper than Claude Sonnet 5; we do not require blocking biological classifiers | Broadly (though not universally) reassuring observations; see Claude Haiku 4.5 System Card |
| Legacy models (see list in appendix) | Legacy commercial deployments, generally less widely used and less capable than Claude Fable 5 and Claude Sonnet 5. Some require blocking CB safeguards. | Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, 1P | General-purpose models with many users and many use cases | Varies (but all less capable than Claude Mythos 5) | Varies |
| Claude Gov | Claude with post-training for national security uses, e.g. fewer refusals for potentially national-security-relevant requests. See Section 4.5.5.3.2 for more. | AWS Secret Cloud and AWS Top Secret Cloud | All users must have at least Secret clearances and work from within accredited networks. Variety of uses, and we do not currently monitor usage | Presumably similar to underlying commercial models | Evaluation of Claude Gov version of Sonnet 4.5 was roughly in line with that of mainline Claude Sonnet 4.5. Others unknown. |
| Other fine-tuned models | Models fine-tuned by Anthropic and/or customers. Claude Haiku 4.5 is the current most capable base for such models, and usage is generally small-scale. | 1P and Bedrock | Limited usage | Presumably similar to underlying base models | Not evaluated |
| Internal models (other than the two internal models described above) | Models used only internally for narrow purposes (such as producing training data and generating preference scores for reinforcement learning) and research purposes. | Internal-only | Variety of uses, but none have comparable affordances and integrations to Claude Mythos 5 and our major commercial models | Varies, but none currently have capabilities beyond that of Claude Mythos 5 | Not evaluated |
| Small externally deployed models for narrow purposes | Some small models are used in production for purposes such as classifying and preventing misuse. | Variety of surfaces | Narrow purposes such as classifying and preventing misuse | Substantially less generally capable than major commercial models | Not evaluated |