Nervous Indian Fintechs Push Anthropic for Access to Mythos

India’s major financial technology firms are pushing Anthropic PBC to give them early access to Mythos, the artificial intelligence model that has sparked global fears about a new era of cyberattacks.

One97 Communications Ltd., Razorpay Software Ltd. and Pine Labs Ltd. are among the Indian companies that have pushed the San Francisco-based AI developer to let them test Mythos and detect vulnerabilities on their own systems. Their requests came after Anthropic announced a limited roll-out of its latest large-language model, which it considers too dangerous to release more widely.

“We had an urgent call with Anthropic to check ...