Before the release of the Mythos model, Wans and Bissent inquired about AI security with tech giants.

According to reports, last week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bernstein queried several tech giant CEOs about the security of artificial intelligence models and strategies for responding to network attacks before the release of their new Mythos model at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. A source familiar with the matter revealed that the meeting took place over the phone. Due to the sensitive nature of the meeting, the source requested anonymity. The source stated that participating tech industry executives included: Anthropic founder Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, and Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. The source explained that the tech executives discussed the security posture and deployment of large language models. Officials also discussed how to respond if the model's capabilities were exploited and spread on a large scale by attackers.