Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'
Anthropic Managing Director Chris Ciauri said in Seoul that the company is confident its Mythos and Fable 5 AI models will become available again "in the coming days" after the White House ordered them blocked for foreign nationals.
Background
- Anthropic is a US artificial intelligence company that builds large language models (like Claude). Mythos and Fable 5 are presumably codenames for Anthropic's most powerful, frontier AI systems (likely internal model versions).
- The White House recently directed US AI companies to block foreign nationals from accessing certain advanced AI models, citing national security concerns — this is part of a broader US policy push to keep cutting-edge AI technology out of competitors' hands (especially China).
- Chris Ciauri is Anthropic's Managing Director for International; he made these remarks in Seoul, South Korea, suggesting Korean users or partners were affected.
- "Re-enabling access" implies the models were taken offline or restricted for non-US users, and Anthropic is now working with the US government to comply in a way that lets them restore service.
- The broader context: the US government is increasingly treating frontier AI models as dual-use technologies (like advanced semiconductors), imposing export controls that force companies to choose between global business and regulatory compliance.