Fable 5 is BACK!

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
We've got some fantastic news today for AI lovers, as Fable 5 will be redeployed by Anthropic. And this is the official announcement. This whole news article just dropped like a few minutes ago. So essentially, what has happened here is on Friday, June the 12th, US government shut down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, export direct control goes on that, and nobody can use it. That was fully taken down. As of today, June the 30th, the export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted. And Fable 5, the headline is, Fable 5 is coming back tomorrow. So within the next 12 to 16 hours, I would expect to see Fable 5 access coming out again. If you're wondering, okay, will it be available for everyone globally? Yes, it will. That's another good piece of news right here. So we can see the news here that Fable 5 will be available starting tomorrow, a.k.a. 1st of June, sorry, 1st of July, Wednesday to users globally. So around the whole world, not just the US.
On Claude Platform, Claude AI, Claude Code, Claude Cowork for Pro, Max, Team and Select Enterprise plans. Now, Fable 5 will also be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits. What that means essentially is the up to 50% of your weekly usage on your Claude subscription can be used with Fable 5, which means it's included inside the subscription. However, what they've actually said is after that, it will be available via usage credits, which is basically like, I think you have to pay to get access to it, to continue using it, right? You have to pay for usage credits and then you have to reload your balance every time you run low. So after July the 7th, then you'll have to pay for it, which is a bad news, but we already knew that was coming eventually anyway. So what they've also said is they've restored access to Mythos 5 for a set of US organizations, not really relevant to us, but basically what they're saying here is that following the US government's approval on June 26th, this will be rolled out again to Project Glasswing, which is a select number of cybersecurity firms and enterprise companies who will have access to Claude Mythos 5
Now also, they've gone on like a long tangent, explaining everything that happened, and I'll cover that in a second. I've not actually read through that, so we're reading it free to go because this is brand, brand, brand new. But what we have over here is the full backstory on this. So if you're fully new to this, just to recap for those at the back and what just happened, on Friday, June 12th, the US government applied export controls to two of their models. So Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 This required Anthropic to basically restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Now, because the order took effect immediately and they had no reliable way to really check if someone is in the US or outside the US or if they're from the US or not from the US., they were just like, right, let's shut it down for everyone. Now that has been lifted, right? So you can see the announcement over here from Howard Lutnick, who says that over the past two weeks, we have worked closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the US government and strengthen America's leadership in AI. Now, this is good news. Susie Wiles also announced it as well as you can see here. So under President Trump's leadership in the United States, apparently they are the undisputed winner in the AI race. So take that for what you will. But what I'm saying here is basically the export control got lifted, then Anthropic made an announcement, and that's where this all came from. So let's talk about the timelines now and what happened. So they've actually provided further details and updates in four different areas. So number one, a timeline of events, including updates have made to the safeguards. So they've actually added some updates to the safeguards. On top of that, they've added a new section and some updates on general approaches to safeguards.
Then they've talked about a shared industry framework. So what they actually said here is that because of the whole shutdown, by the way, the shutdown was triggered by someone announcing a jailbreak of Fable 5 Now, there's no confirmation of what happened from that, from what I can see so far. But basically, there were rumors that a Chinese company got access to it. There were other rumors, the Amazon's team actually managed to jailbreak it. They reported it and that's why it got shut down. Nothing's been fully announced on that. Maybe they've talked about that inside the announcement here. We'll take a look at that in a second. And they also said together with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other Glasswing partners, we've started to develop a framework to fix these potential problems where people bypass the safeguards of these models. And then they've also talked about deeper government collaboration. So I think one thing we're going to see is number one in the future, this is not the first time it's going to happen. It's not the first time a frontier model is going to get removed. Number two, this is good news because we were all worried about gated stuff. But number three, the US government especially is getting really involved in these AI models. And I think we're going to see that progress as a theme over the next few releases, because we're at a point now where AI is so powerful and so much better than it was a couple of years ago that the US government is like going to get really cracking down on like, OK, who this gets released to, who has access, how many safeguards or what safeguards are on the models as well. So I think that's a theme we'll see in the future. So if you look, for example, of OpenAI and GPT 5.6, that is not available to anyone, right? It's only available to like 20 different enterprises. Nobody like me has access to it, you know, and it's one of those where we're going to see that more and more. Why is it? It's because the government is like really cracking down on who gets access, which is kind of bad for Anthropic and for OpenAI, because if they're trying to compete in a world, you know, globally where China is just open sourcing all their projects and just releases whatever they want, whenever they want, it's going to be pretty hard for them to keep up, but we'll see. That's a totally different topic for a totally different video. So we have the timeline and safeguard effects. So June 9th we got released, June 12th got shut down. And the reason are, so this is actually because of Amazon. Yeah, so I said, I haven't read this report, but yeah, it is down to Amazon. So that's why it got shut down. So the export control directive on June 12th came after the government became aware of a report in which Amazon researchers had found a method of bypassing Fable 5 safeguards, prompting it to find vulnerabilities. And so that's why it got shut down. Okay, interesting. So basically Amazon cracked it, they found a way to bypass Fable 5, and that's why Fable 5 is not longer accessible to any of us until tomorrow. And then they've also said that with many less capable models like GPT 4.8, 5.5, Kim K-217, they can be bypassed in the same way.