Anthropic has confirmed that it will begin restoring access to the Claude Fable 5 this Wednesday, July 1, nearly three weeks after US export controls forced the company to take the model offline. Here are the details.
In a post on X, Anthropic confirmed that the US Department of Commerce has cleared Claude to restore access to Fable 5, ending a nearly two-week suspension caused by export controls.
A little context
Anthropic was forced to pull Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 on June 12th after a series of still-unexplained events.
When the company first announced the Claude Mythos Preview, it emphasized the sensitivity of the model’s capabilities and limited access through a program known as Project Glassing.
A few weeks later, Anthropic released what were described as widespread versions of the Preview model: Mythos 5, which was limited to select trusted organizations, and Fable 5, which was available to Claude subscribers.
according to The Wall Street JournalAmazon researchers later claimed that a number of clues could provide Fable 5 with potentially useful information in cyberattacks. Talks between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and the White House reportedly helped craft the export control directive forcing Anthropic to shut down both models.
This forced the Commerce Department issues an export control directive On June 12, it banned any foreign national inside or outside the United States from entering models at Anthropic, including foreign workers. Given just 90 minutes to comply, the company chose to take both models completely offline.
Since then, Anthropic and the White House have been in a lengthy negotiation process that led to the company’s announcement last Friday. Claude cleared to release Mythos 5 to over 100 US institutions.
At the time, Anthropic said it was continuing to work with the government to repackage Claude Fable 5, which brings us to tonight.
Claude Fable 5 will return on July 1st
As first reported PoliticsThe Commerce Department was set to lift restrictions on Fable 5 late Tuesday:
The Trump administration lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models late Tuesday.
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a letter to the company that Anthropic no longer needed an export license for its products after agreeing to “proactively identify and address security risks associated with the models,” work with the government on protocols for future releases and report any “malicious activity” it discovers among its models.
Soon after, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed at X that officials had spent the previous two weeks evaluating and validating models with Anthropic, though he did not elaborate on when or how Fable 5 would return.
Then anthropic announced has announced that export controls on both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted and will begin restoring access on July 1st.
The company did not confirm Politico’s report that the Fable 5 will once again be available to general users worldwide, nor did it say whether access would return all at once or in a phased release. However, the company promised another update to be released soon newsroom.
9to5Mac will continue to monitor the situation and update this post as more information becomes available. For now, users waiting to access or re-acquire Claude Fable 5 should see the model return on Wednesday.
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