The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's two most advanced AI models Tuesday, clearing the way for global access to return this week. Key Points The Commerce Department
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's two most advanced AI models Tuesday, clearing the way for global access to return this week.
- The Commerce Department withdrew restrictions on Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 roughly two and a half weeks after imposing them.
- Anthropic said Fable 5 will roll out globally starting Wednesday with a new safeguard designed to block jailbreak attempts.
- The reversal follows warnings that the restrictions were giving Chinese AI developers extra time to close the gap.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Bureau of Industry and Security withdrew the controls it imposed on Jun. 12, ending a standoff that lasted just over two weeks. The agency's review of diversion risks tied to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 no longer justified a license requirement, he confirmed in a post on X.
Anthropic will begin restoring global access to Fable 5 on Wednesday. Mythos 5 has already returned for select U.S. organizations that received approval on Jun. 26.
The company called the resolution a relief after weeks of uncertainty.
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles wrote on X that the government and industry had cooperated in an unusually close way over the past two weeks. OpenAI, Anthropic's closest rival, faced a similar request from officials last week, when it limited the rollout of its new GPT-5.6 models to trusted partners.
Industry groups had criticized the original restrictions as overly broad.
Tech executives and investors had grown concerned that the controls were handing Chinese open-source developers extra time to close the capability gap, since Beijing's models are advancing quickly and cost far less to run. The government's approach to regulating frontier AI before release remains unsettled, creating what analysts describe as an ad hoc environment for developers.
The standoff began Jun. 12, when Commerce ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals, including its own non-citizen employees, from the new models over national security concerns. Anthropic disabled both models for all users to ensure compliance, then negotiated with officials in Washington for over two weeks. A partial fix arrived Jun. 26, when Mythos 5 access returned for more than 100 approved U.S. organizations, before Tuesday's broader reversal cleared the way for Fable 5's return.
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