U.S. government lifts export ban on Anthropic models
· UPIJune 30 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on artificia lintelligence company Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, the company said Tuesday evening.
"We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5," Anthropic said in a statement, CNN reported. "We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon."
The statement came not long after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posted on social media about Anthropic, saying "we have worked closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the U.S. government and strengthen America's leadership in AI."
Anthropic disabled customer access to Fable, a consumer version of its Mythos AI model with more safeguards, and Mythos itself several weeks ago after the export ban June 12. The ban required the company to suspend all use by foreign nationals inside or outside the United States, including Anthropic employees.
In a statement then, Anthropic said its understanding was that "the government it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking,' Fable 5."
"We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities," the company said. "These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass."
The government loosened some of the restrictions on Mythos on Friday, Politico reported.
Anthropic and the U.S. government have had a rocky relationship. Anthropic leaders' concerns about military and intelligence usage of its products caused issues with the Department of Defense.
President Donald Trump called it a "radical left, woke company" and ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products, while Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, called the company a supply chain risk to national security.
Anthropic has sued the Trump administration to reverse the blacklisting, and that lawsuit is ongoing.