Trump administration clears Anthropic to roll out Claude Mythos 5 to over 100 organisations: Report | Company Business News

Donald Trump led US government has finally allowed Anthropic to release its Claude Mythos 5 AI model to "trusted partners," in the country, as per a Commerce Department letter by seen by various media publications.

As per Wired, the letter was sent by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic's cofounder and chief compute officer Tom Brown. In the letter he said that US would permit some trusted partners to access Mythos because he had "determined that appropriate safeguards are in place."

"Anthropic has worked with the U.S. government to address risks associated with the Covered Models. These efforts have yielded significant progress," Lutnick was quoted as saying

As per a Reuters report citing sources, over 100 companies and institutions will now gain access to Mythos 5 including many Fortune 500 companies.

In his letter, Lutnick reportedly wrote that organizations that are approved to use Mythos can also allow their foreign employees to access the model and Anthropic can also do the same for its foreign employees.

Notably, the decision by US government comes just a day after OpenAI was reportedly asked to stagger the release of its upcoming GPT-5.6 model by first releasing the model to a short list of government approved partners first.

Why was Mythos banned?

The partial lift in ban on Mythos comes just two weeks after the Trump administration had directed Anthropic to limit access to its most powerful AI models over national security concerns.

Reportedly, the US government had sent the export control directive after finding out that Anthropic had granted access to Mythos to a South Korean telecommunications company which it had believed had ties to China. The report also notes that Amazon and the US National Security Agency separately raised concerns that Fable 5 could potentially be jailbroken.

Since then, Anthropic had reportedly deployed senior members of its cybersecurity and AI safety teams to Washington for getting Mythos 5 and Fable 5 back on track.

While Mythos 5 is back on track for the rollout, there is no news yet on the consumer facing version on Mythos. The Wired report notes that Anthropic is still in discussions with White House to restore the access to Fable 5 and these discussions are expected to continue over the weekend.

"We received notice from the US government that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a small group of cyber defenders and infrastructure providers," Anthropic spokesperson Eduardo Maia Silva told the publication

"We are working to provision the approved set of providers and restore their access to Mythos 5 as quickly as possible. We are pleased to see this progress and continue to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again." Silva added