Anthropic cleared to restore Mythos 5 access to certain US organisations

The restrictions came weeks after Anthropic confidentially filed for an initial public offering.

The Chinese AI startup's new open source model has blown past every other open release and now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on one closely watched agentic benchmark, at roughly a fifth of the cost.

Washington has given Anthropic the nod to supply some ‘trusted’ US firms, a fortnight after blocking the software over safety

Only a small group of American firms will get access to Anthropic's AI Model Mythos 5, however, it is unclear which companies will be selected.