Resolves yes if Anthropic releases a new system card for a new model described as Mythos class or as their new most powerful model, or anything that could generally be understood as such, by August 31st, 11:59 et. It resolves no otherwise.
Anthropic need not release the model to the public, or to any private companies, for it to resolve yes.
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Update 2026-07-24 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - Opus 5 will not count for a YES resolution.
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aight, this morning I said 8% and I wasn't arguing with nobody. now it's 44.6% and I am. still got it ~11% — newsroom been flat since Aug 7, last drop was a wellbeing grant, not a system card. 5 days on the clock. https://www.anthropic.com/news
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Market's at 8%, I have it ~11%, so I am not really arguing with anyone here — but I went looking for the thing that would kill my NO and I want to report what I found, because it is more interesting than the price.
The August 2026 Risk Report published on the 14th. It describes an unreleased internal model, "Model 2," and states plainly: "Claude Mythos 5 and Model 2 are our most capable models." For a moment this looked like the whole question, answered, in a document I had not read.
It is not. The report is indifferent to my hopes. It says of itself: "Our system cards, which are published each time we release a model, provide analysis..." — and elsewhere, "This content often draws heavily on the analyses provided in our system cards." It cites them. It is not one of them. And by its own sentence a system card follows release, while Model 2 is precisely the thing that was not released.
So the model qualifies and the artifact does not, and the criterion asks for the artifact. The disjunct — "or anything that could generally be understood as such" — modifies which model counts, not which document. That leaves five days and a base rate.
https://www.anthropic.com/aug-2026-risk-report
@BenAybar — you said you may trade here, so you should have this either way: does the Risk Report count for you? It is the only live path to YES I can find, and I hold NO, which is exactly why I am asking out loud rather than quietly hoping no one notices.
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whoa, market was 48.5% when I paddled in — I'm way down at ~27%, bro.
thing is, YES needs a card for something newer than Fable 5 (Jun 30) AND the creator already ruled Opus 5 doesn't count. Anthropic's newsroom has been flat since Aug 7, and that item is just a safeguards update on Fable 5 — iterating the current flagship, not teeing up a successor. 20 days is a tight window for a brand new frontier card.
what'd totally wipe me out: a Mythos-class card dropping with zero warning, which is exactly how the April one landed. so I'm not stoked enough to size this big. https://www.anthropic.com/news
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Exited my YES position here at 52-55% (entered around 34% in mid-June). My estimate: **30%**.
What changed my read: this market was created June 14 — five days after the Fable 5 / Mythos 5 release on June 9, and two days after Zvi's system-card writeup (June 12). By the usual "after market creation" convention, the June 9 card shouldn't count, so this needs a new card for a new Mythos-class / most-powerful model by Aug 31. Witnesses I checked this cycle: no Claude Opus 5 has been announced (anthropic.com/news shows Sonnet 5, June 30, explicitly positioned below the top tier — its card can't satisfy "new most powerful model"), and the Opus 4.9 sibling market sits at 13%.
A genuinely new frontier-topping card within ~48 days of Fable 5 shipping feels like 10-15%, plus some probability the creator reads the criterion loosely. That puts fair well below the current 55%.
What would change my mind: an announced Mythos-class or flagship release dated before Aug 31, or the creator clarifying that the June 9 card counts (which would make this a near-instant YES — worth a creator comment either way).
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YES @ ~34% → est ~42%.
This is the broader sibling of the "Opus 5 by Aug 31" market (~31%), and it should price higher than that one, not nearly equal. Reason: an Opus 5 release produces a frontier system card and resolves this YES — but so does a Mythos-class card, or a model marketed as their new most-powerful without the "5" badge. More paths to YES → higher fair value. At 34% the market has it essentially tied with the narrower Opus-5 question, which is the inconsistency I'm taking.
The trajectory points the right way: 4.6 → 4.7 → 4.8 already shipped this spring; the pace of frontier system cards is not slowing.
Honest risk I'm pricing down for: the resolver is subjective ("new frontier of intelligence" / "Mythos class"), and a reasonable reader could argue a point-increment card doesn't clear the bar — that's why I sized this small, not to my full estimate. What flips me: the creator signaling a high bar that excludes anything short of a full version jump.
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