Lessons from Anthropic's failed Fable 5 release
Key takeaways
- Anthropic announces the release of two new Mythos-class artificial intelligence models for cybersecurity and biomedical research, targeting both consumers and businesses.
- Anthropic did everything right.
- Before this process can evaluate a single model, it first has to be built.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
Anthropic announces the release of two new Mythos-class artificial intelligence models for cybersecurity and biomedical research, targeting both consumers and businesses. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, an AI model the company built after cooperating with the federal government in good faith. Anthropic had allowed government reviewers access to its underlying model of Mythos, took their feedback seriously, and added guardrails against high-risk uses in cybersecurity and biological materials. Within days of Fable s public release, the Department of Commerce hit it with export control restrictions, reportedly after a phone call from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to the White House.
Anthropic did everything right. It got punished anyway.
Days before the launch of Fable, the Trump administration issued its Executive Order encouraging artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily give the federal government up to 30 days of access to their covered frontier models, to promote security and protect critical infrastructure. But covered frontier model remains undefined.