Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?
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Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew emergency export controls that led the company to suspend all access to both Fable 5 and its less restricted cybersecurity counterpart model Claude Mythos 5 last month, just days after both models were initially introduced. Starting today, Fable 5 is available for users globally across the primary Anthropic ecosystem, including the Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. However, when VentureBeat tried to access it in Claude Code on Terminal, it still showed as disabled.For organizations leveraging cloud hyperscalers, Anthropic says it is moving to re-enable access on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry “as quickly as possible.” So far, VentureBeat's research has been unable to confirm if the models have been restored on these external cloud hyperscaler platforms yet.Mythos 5 remains a different case. A letter posted on the social network X allegedly from U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic executive Tom Brown says a license is no longer required for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of Fable and Mythos.But Anthropic’s own redeployment post on its website says only that Mythos 5 access has been restored for “a set of US organizations,” following government approval on June 26. The company says it is continuing to coordinate with the government to expand access to broader domestic and international partners in its opt-in cybersecurity testing program, Project Glasswing.That leaves Mythos 5 in a middle category: legally cleared from the emergency export-control order, but not generally available. The current limit appears to come from Anthropic’s decision to keep Mythos behind a vetted-access model, with the U.S. government still playing a role in approvals, standards and expansion.Posting on X, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anth