When Mythos, an artificial-intelligence model from US firm Anthropic, launched to a limited group of companies earlier this year, rumours quickly circulated about the system's hacking capabilities and threats to cybersecurity. Real clarity about the model's power came only once the AI Security Institute (AISI) ' a UK government-backed organization in London ' had evaluated the model. London, particularly its technology quarter in King's Cross, is emerging as a key hub outside the United States for AI firms (see 'King's Cross hub'), with Anthropic and OpenAI, both headquartered in San Francisco, California, opening major offices there. And the city's approach has a distinct flavour to that of its international counterparts. Rather than competing with the United States and China on generating ever bigger and more-powerful models, the United Kingdom is carving out a focus on AI safety and understanding the risks of emerging models. AISI ' which vets frontier models that companies...
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