US issues first-ever export control on LLM access, forcing Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline globally

Our response to the US ban on Fable 5 and Mythos 5

The US government issued an export control directive banning foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Anthropic took both offline globally. Fable 5 launched just three days ago; Mythos 5 was only available to select partners. The ban covers nationals of close allies including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, regardless of where they live. Australian legal AI startup Isaacus used the moment to double down on its self-hosting stance: every model they ship supports air-gapped deployment, and they plan to make future AI applications fully self-hostable too.

Why it matters: The US Commerce Department issued its first-ever export control targeting specific AI models, barring foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic responded by pulling both models globally. This marks a shift from chip-level to model-level expor...