DeepSeek v4 has been released, and GPT-5.5 has also launched. Perhaps it’s time for Mythos to be opened to the general public too. The surface narrative is “safety”—if everyone has a gun, it’s safer; the more evenly AI capabilities are distributed, the less room there is for any single entity to cause harm. This reasoning sounds plausible. But the real driver has never been safety—it’s valuation. Every AI company is now on a high-valuation treadmill: stop, and you can’t raise the next round; slow down, and competitors will overtake you; even pausing for a single quarter can drop your narrative from “leading lab” to “second-tier follower.” That’s why the pace is accelerating: releasing one model per year isn’t enough—you need three; releasing isn’t enough—you must open access; opening access isn’t enough—you must open the strongest version. The risk isn’t one company dominating—it’s that all players are held hostage by valuation, none daring to slow down. The one that slows falls behind; the one that falls behind gets sold off; the one that gets sold off can’t raise capital. Under this mechanism, no one can afford to be cautious.