Combined results (Claude Mythos / Claude Opus 4.6 / GPT-5.4 / Gemini 3.1 Pro)

SWE-bench Verified: 93.9% / 80.8% / — / 80.6%
SWE-bench Pro: 77.8% / 53.4% / 57.7% / 54.2%
SWE-bench Multilingual: 87.3% / 77.8% / — / —
SWE-bench Multimodal: 59.0% / 27.1% / — / —
Terminal-Bench 2.0: 82.0% / 65.4% / 75.1% / 68.5%

GPQA Diamond: 94.5% / 91.3% / 92.8% / 94.3%
MMMLU: 92.7% / 91.1% / — / 92.6–93.6%
USAMO: 97.6% / 42.3% / 95.2% / 74.4%
GraphWalks BFS 256K–1M: 80.0% / 38.7% / 21.4% / —

HLE (no tools): 56.8% / 40.0% / 39.8% / 44.4%
HLE (with tools): 64.7% / 53.1% / 52.1% / 51.4%

CharXiv (no tools): 86.1% / 61.5% / — / —
CharXiv (with tools): 93.2% / 78.9% / — / —

OSWorld: 79.6% / 72.7% / 75.0% / —

Haven't seen a jump this large since I don't even know, years?
Too bad they are not releasing it anytime soon (there is no need as they are still currently the leader).

A jump that we will never be able to use since we're not part of the seemingly minimum 100 billion dollar company club as requirement to be allowed to use it.

I get the security aspect, but if we've hit that point any reasonably sophisticated model past this point will be able to do the damage they claim it can do. They might as well be telling us they're closing up shop for consumer models.

They should just say they'll never release a model of this caliber to the public at this point and say out loud we'll only get gimped versions.

More than killer AI I'm afraid of Anthropic/OpenAI going into full rent-seeking mode so that everyone working in tech is forced to fork out loads of money just to stay competitive on the market. These companies can also choose to give exclusive access to hand picked individuals and cut everyone else off and there would be nothing to stop them.

This is already happening to some degree, GPT 5.3 Codex's security capabilities were given exclusively to those who were approved for a "Trusted Access" programme.

Well don’t forget we still have competition. Were anthropic to rent seek OpenAI would undercut them. Were OpenAI and anthropic to collude that would be illegal. For anthropic to capture the entire coding agent market and THEN rent seek, these days it’s never been easier to raise $1B and start a competing lab
Describing providing a highly valuable service for money as `rent seeking` is pretty wild.
My housing is pretty valuable. I pay rent. Which timeline are you in?
Rent-seeking - Wikipedia

Actually you're saying similar things:

Rent-seeking of old was a ground rent, monies paid for the land without considering the building that was on it.

Residential rents today often have implied warrants because of modern law, so your landlord is essentially selling you a service at a particular location.

It could be, formally, if they have a monopoly.

However, I’m tempted to compare to GitHub: if I join a new company, I will ask to be included to their GitHub account without hesitation. I couldn’t possibly imagine they wouldn’t have one. What makes the cost of that subscription reasonable is not just GitHub’s fear a crowd with pitchforks showing to their office, by also the fact that a possible answer to my non-question might be “Oh, we actually use GitLab.”

If Anthropic is as good as they say, it seems fairly doable to use the service to build something comparable: poach a few disgruntled employees, leverage the promise to undercut a many-trillion-dollar company to be a many-billion dollar company to get investors excited.

I’m sure the founders of Anthropic will have more money than they could possibly spend in ten lifetimes, but I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be some competition. Maybe this time it’s different, but I can’t see how.

The thing is that the current models can ALREADY replicate most software-based products and services on the market. The open source models are not far behind. At a certain point I'm not sure it matters if the frontier models can do faster and better. I see how they're useful for really complex and cutting edge use cases, but that's not what most people are using them for.
but you are assuming that the magical wizards are the only ones who can create powerful AIs... mind you these people have been born just few decades ago. Their knowledge will be transferred and it will only take a few more decades until anyone can train powerful AIs ... you can only sit on tech for so long before everyone knows how to do it