20 August 2026

Anthropic built a stronger Claude model that stays internal only

First reported

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  • Anthropic, the company behind Claude, developed an unreleased model called Model 2 that outperforms all public versions of Claude, according to its August 2026 risk report.
  • Model 2 scores 1.5 points higher than Claude Mythos 5 on Anthropic's internal capability scale, a smaller gain than previous public releases showed between versions.

Reported by The Decoder