The United States government has authorized Anthropic to release its powerful cloud Mythos 5, an artificial intelligence model, to certain “trusted” US cybersecurity firms, the company announced on Friday.
“Today, the government informed us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, may be redeployed across a group of U.S. organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure,” Anthropic said in a statement Friday.
This announcement comes two weeks after the Trump administration blocked access to Mythos 5.
“We are quickly restoring access for these organizations, and we continue to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again,” the statement said.
Anthropic has had a tense relationship with the Trump administration for months. A spokesperson for the company said the AI company would continue discussions with the government to “expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available again to the general public”.
Why was Anthropic’s AI model blocked by the Trump administration?
Anthropic suddenly recalled its most advanced AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, to all users after the government issued an order on June 12 restricting their release.
The Trump administration had cited concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries in taking an aggressive stance in monitoring the release of Anthropic and rival OpenAI’s Frontier models.
The Trump administration was accused of government overreach with its strong control measures against Anthropic.
There are concerns about who gets access to powerful AI models
The Trump administration has not disclosed how it will investigate which organizations and which companies it will investigate and on what basis it will get access to Mythos.
OpenAI boss Sam Altman expressed concern about the government’s choice to gain access to top models in a post on X.
“Extensive security testing is not a bad idea,” he wrote. I don’t like the idea of the government picking on customers.”
More than 100 companies and institutions will now have access to Mythos 5, including several Fortune 500 companies, a source familiar with the new directive told Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity.
Edited by: Jennifer Cimino Gonzalez