Headlines said 'Asian startups clone Mythos.' One is Japanese, Khosla-backed, and the 'clone' claim is unproven (techcrunch.com)
After the Trump administration blocked global access to Anthropic's Mythos, TechCrunch grouped a Tokyo startup's model and a Chinese one as 'Mythos-like' clones filling the gap.
A CTO in the thread pulled it apart: 'Asian' lumps a Khosla-backed Japanese ally in with China, and the 'distilled from Anthropic' line is unproven — these are different multi-model architectures. A skeptic added the obvious tell: you don't ship a frontier model out of nowhere with nothing released before it.
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