China’s Mythos Moment

China’s AI Mythos moment is coming. What happens next?

Claude Mythos has completely scrambled American AI policy. Trump 2.0 — an administration whose AI-dominance rhetoric manifested in a let-it-rip regulatory approach — is shook. To quote Dean Ball, “we currently have a de facto involuntary licensing pre-approval regime for frontier models” from the administration that promised us the opposite of that.

Will Beijing also freak out once it faces the prospect of wide domestic access to a model that can hack everything? We may not have long to find out. A Zhipu AI co-founder called his shot, telling Elon on X that China will have a model on par with Mythos before the end of the year. Even if he’s off by a few months, the American think tank IAPS puts the date at February 2027. A Chinese My…