Anthropic, one of the major artificial intelligence players has abruptly suspended access to its advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all customers globally following an export control directive from the US goverment citing national security concerns.
According to the company, the order requires it to suspend all access to foreign nationals regardless of whether they are inside or outside the United States, including foreign national employees at Anthropic. The company said all other AI models will remain unaffected.
The move is expected to impact Indian users and enterprises, India being the company's second largest market. The development follows major partnerships between the AI firm and Indian IT giants, including a recent deal with TCS to equip 50,000 employees with Anthropic's models, and a collaboration announced by Infosys in February to deploy advanced enterprise AI solutions using the Claude family of models.
According to sources, select Indian government agencies and private firms were recently granted access to the Mythos model under a cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing.
Anthropic said the US government believes it has identified a way to bypass Fable 5's safety protections.Defending its models, Anthropic said it reviewed a demonstration of the specific technique and found it to be a "narrow, non-universal jailbreak" that essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix software flaws. It maintained that similar capabilities already exist in other frontier AI systems and are routinely used by cyber security professionals.
Apologising to its customers for the disruption, Anthropic termed the government's action a "misunderstanding" and stated it is working to restore access as soon as possible. The company also argued that while governments should be able to intervene when AI systems poses genuine risks, such actions should be based on transparent regulatory processes rather than precautionary measures that disrupt access for users worldwide.
New Delhi: Anthropic, one of the major artificial intelligence players has abruptly suspended access to its advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all customers globally following an export control directive from the US government citing national security concerns.
According to the company, the order requires it to suspend all access to foreign nationals regardless of whether they are inside or outside the United States, including foreign national employees at Anthropic. The company said all other AI models will remain unaffected.
The move is expected to impact Indian users and enterprises, India being the company's second largest market. The development follows major partnerships between the AI firm and Indian IT giants, including a recent deal with TCS to equip 50,000 employees with Anthropic's models, and a collaboration announced by Infosys in February to deploy advanced enterprise AI solutions using the Claude models. According to sources, select Indian government agencies and private firms were recently granted access to the Mythos model under a cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing.
Anthropic said the US government believes it has identified a way to bypass Fable 5's safety protections. Defending its models, Anthropic said it reviewed a demonstration of the specific technique and found it to be a "narrow, non-universal jailbreak" that essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix software flaws. It maintained that similar capabilities already exist in other frontier AI systems and are routinely used by cyber security professionals.
Apologising to its customers for the disruption, Anthropic termed the government's action a "misunderstanding" and stated it is working to restore access as soon as possible. The company also argued that while governments should be able to intervene when AI systems poses genuine risks, such actions should be based on transparent regulatory processes rather than precautionary measures that disrupt access for users worldwide.
