Evidence item

Independent reporting describes strongest-model access restricted to vetted partners and says enterprise constraints push companies toward fewer vendors with higher switching costs. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 12848

Source: Frontier AI Is Splitting Into Closed Camps · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:ac031b7bb0305443771de2babe087d706a23d9972e79810ec9e66911da42cfce

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Anthropic now routes its strongest model, Mythos 5, only through Project Glasswing, a vetting program limited to trusted partners. ... OpenAI ran the same play, handing its government editions of GPT-5.6 to a short list of partners well ahead of any public endpoint. ... Zero-retention data policies, sovereignty requirements, and reluctance to expose proprietary prompts already push companies toward fewer vendors. Hardcoded model defaults inside SaaS platforms compound that: switching providers now means renegotiating a contract, not changing a config flag.

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