Anthropic’s Opus 5 Nears Mythos 5 on Finding Bugs, but Falls Short on Exploits
Binary-based vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and exploit generation are blocked in Opus 5. The post Anthropic’s Opus 5 Nears Mythos 5 on Finding Bugs, but Falls Short on Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic on Friday rolled out Claude Opus 5, pitching it as a cheaper alternative to its top-tier Fable 5 model. In terms of cybersecurity, the new model is nearly as good as the AI giant’s most capable system, Mythos 5, at spotting software vulnerabilities, but remains well behind it in turning those findings into working exploits.
The difference comes from Anthropic’s own OSS-Fuzz-based evaluation, which measures how well a model can locate and then exploit vulnerabilities with minimal human steering. According to the company, Opus 5 identifies vulnerabilities at a rate close to Mythos 5, but its exploit-development score trails considerably.
Anthropic frames this as a deliberate outcome, noting that it has avoided training Opus 5 directly on offensive cyber tasks. The gains it does show, the company says, are a byproduct of broader capability improvements.
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