A 22-Year-Old Dropout Just Reverse-Engineered The World’s Scariest AI

A 22-year-old self-taught developer, Kye Gomez, released OpenMythos after reverse-engineering likely ideas behind Anthropic’s Claude Mythos.

The project explores a looped, recurrent-depth transformer-style architecture and has drawn quick attention from AI researchers.

The case suggests advanced model design ideas may be easier to copy and spread outside major labs than many expected.

That raises concerns about the durability of proprietary AI advantages and the challenge of controlling diffusion of powerful AI capabilities.