Anthropic won U.S. approval to restore some access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model, after resolving government concerns about the technology’s potential threats to national security.
“Anthropic has worked with the U.S. government to address risks associated with the Covered Models,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to the company’s chief compute officer in a letter seen by Bloomberg News. “These efforts have yielded significant progress,” he wrote, saying that the model could be released to “certain trusted partners.”
The clearance eases a confrontation that erupted two weeks ago when the government abruptly barred Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Mythos 5 and a related model, Fable 5, over fears that security guardrails could be circumvented. The order prompted the company to disable all global access to the two advanced systems and touched off intensive talks toward a resolution.