India In Talks With US To Access Anthropic’s Fable 5 Model

Weeks after the Trump administration blocked access to Anthropic’s newly-launched AI models for all foreign nationals, India and the US are reportedly in talks for “gradual” roll out of advanced large language models (LLM).

Speaking with news agency ANI, US under secretary of economic growth, Jacob Helberg, said that the two countries are holding high-level, “sensitive” deliberations regarding the release of sophisticated AI models, including those developed by Anthropic. Without disclosing much about the negotiations, he said that the two countries are in strong alignment. 

Emphasising that both nations are prioritising a secure and collaborative approach to frontier AI, Helberg reportedly said that the US is committed to a “gradual, measured approach” to ensure safe rollout of AI models for India and other “trusted partners”.

“We continue to have ongoing conversations about this topic with our Indian friends… But I think both sides really understand each other’s perspectives, our intention is very much to continue a gradual measured approach to how we release Anthropic’s models in a way that is safe, both for ourselves but also for our Indian counterparts as well as all our trusted partners for our critical infrastructure…,” added Helberg.

The comments came on the same day as IT secretary S Krishnan was in the US to attend the second Pax Silica Summit. Speaking on the sidelines of the summit, he reportedly expressed concerns over the reliability of access to advanced AI models from Anthropic and others. 

“We sought an understanding of how exactly the US is looking at this particular aspect and what their concerns are and how, in the future, this could be a reliable source of technology, because if it is something which is to be used and made available, we can’t have abrupt cutoffs…,” Krishnan reportedly added.

The comments come weeks after Anthropic received an export control directive from US authorities, ordering the AI giant to block access to Claude Fable 5 for all foreign nationals, including non-US employees working at the company.

The order left Anthropic with little choice but to disable the models globally for all its customers, while claiming that it had no clarity on what prompted the US government’s intervention.

The development came days after Anthropic announced the launch of Fable 5 and Mythos 5. While Fable 5 is designed as a general-purpose version of Anthropic’s new Mythos-class models, Mythos 5 is an advanced, but highly restricted version of Anthropic’s flagship Claude 5 AI model.

Rather than opening it to new users, the company initially made Mythos available only to a select organisations under Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity-focused programme run in collaboration with the US government. 

The launch of Claude Mythos Preview had raised concerns across countries on its potential misuse – potentially enabling hackers to identify and exploit critical software vulnerabilities. The aftermath saw many critics flagging India’s over dependence on foreign AI platforms and the need for a more effective national AI strategy. 

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