The U.S. government has lifted an export ban on Anthropic’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the company said, just weeks after it ordered the company to restrict access over national security concerns.
Anthropic said in a statement that it would begin restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 starting Wednesday after receiving notification that the U.S. Department of Commerce had lifted restrictions on both models.
It was the company’s most advanced AI tool yet, which was abruptly shut down on June 12 amid concerns that it could be used by hackers to exploit weaknesses in computer systems.
The Department of Commerce said in a letter seen by the BBC that Anthropic had addressed the risks.
“Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with its models,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a letter to the tech companies.
The companies also agreed to collaborate on future AI model releases and notify the government of any malicious activity, Lutnick wrote.
The Commerce Department reserves the right to reconsider its decision to lift export restrictions if necessary, he added.
The BBC has contacted the Department of Commerce for further information.
Mythos and Fable are two of Anthropic’s AI models built on the Claude platform. It competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
Fable 5 is a version of AI models for the consumer market, capable of deep reasoning and capable of performing complex tasks independently.
Mythos 5 is a platform version designed for: choose Enterprise and cybersecurity experts. It is said that it can find vulnerabilities in computer code and exploit them. Both models were released on June 9th.
The company previously said U.S. authorities had not pinpointed specific concerns about the technology, despite ordering a global suspension of both platforms.
“We understand that the government believes it knows how to circumvent or ‘jailbreak’ Fable 5,” the company said at the time, referring to the process of bypassing software safety restrictions to unblock features.
“However, we do not agree that the possibility of a narrow jailbreak should be cause for recall of a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people.”
