"Partners" is the important word in your comment. I am reading all of it, but I have a huge barrel of salt to consume along with everything that I read, because I see conflicts of interest everywhere I go, with fancy words and no means to verify.

If I was given free access to any frontier model to use on my projects, equivalent of millions of dollars in AI credits, I sure hope people didn't trust anything that came out of my mouth until they were able to verify my claims themselves.

AI industry has even resulted in a new term - benchmaxing - which essentially means we can't even trust the data anymore until we can touch the model ourselves. So this is not at all surprising to me. What's surprising is why am I in the minority here, and since when trusting authorities that have obvious conflicts of interest became normal.

I don't think Firefox or The Linux Foundation have conflicts of interest here. They've said in their contracts that they get the tokens irrespective of what they say about Mythos. Additionally, the findings speak for themselves.

This just seems overly conspiratorial to me. I don't remember Anthropic ever lying in their blog posts. They've been about as consistent as Apple when it comes to product claims.