ClaimsElon Musk

“they certainly have right now”

Elon Musk, interviewee 27 July 2026 Elon Musk The Economist July 23rd 2026 - Full Interview Transcript (Sozai)

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Factual AI capabilities

Musk said "they" certainly have a model now, which he called something like "mythos 2 or fable 6", that is much better than what they had in February, and that he thinks they could release it at any time.

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Anthropic's unreleased internal model capability is only known to Anthropic.

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Elon Musk, “Musk said "they" certainly have a model now, which he called something like "mythos 2 or fable 6", that is much better than what they had in February, and that he thinks they could release it at any time.” (said 27 July 2026). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_7c157428deee, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7c157428deee

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