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It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-04-24

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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At Black Hat Asia, RunSybil CEO Ari Herbert-Voss argued that open-source LLMs, when orchestrated together with appropriate "scaffolding," can match Anthropic's Mythos at finding software bugs; he highlighted supralinear scaling as a possible reason for Mythos' effectiveness, noted Mythos' restricted access and cost, and emphasized that humans remain necessary to validate AI-generated findings and manage noisy outputs like those from fuzzing.

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