Anthropic CEO may release new AI model ahead of IPO

Anthropic is reportedly weighing the release of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model to counter the rising momentum of rival OpenAI’s newly deployed GPT-6 Astra, a report has said, citing three people familiar with internal discussions. The potential rollout comes ahead of an anticipated initial public offering (IPO) and arrives two weeks after Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei released a 3,800-word essay urging the global AI ecosystem to curb the speed of frontier model releases out of concern for systemic safety risks.As per a report by news agency Reuters, the internal push to deploy a countermeasure highlights the fierce commercial rivalry between the two frontier developers. Amodei warned of dark scenarios involving swarms of autonomous AI agents hacking websites without human oversight.