Computationally expensive AI models like Claude Mythos can only be used effectively by individuals who spend significant amounts on tokens.

Is Mythos model is not generally available and is only accessible to select individuals at companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, and the US government.

A simple AI chat typically costs a few hundred tokens.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos model is a much bigger, more expensive, slower, but more powerful model compared to Opus.

Adaptive thinking is now mandatory for extended thinking from Claude models, preventing users from forcing longer inference compute.

Users on Anthropic's subreddit have reported that their Claude usages are being cut in half and token consumption is high.