White House · Mythos · Anthropic · Donald Trump · OpenAI · Pentagon · TechCrunch AI
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
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The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp revealed.
Key facts
- For instance, Ramp reported that Anthropic’s share of AI subscriptions paid for by businesses rose 2.5 percentage points in May to 41%
- The chatter was that hackers easily bypassed Fable 5’s guardrails, which were intended to prevent access to Mythos’ capabilities
- In fact, in late May, Anthropic released a new version, Opus 4.8
- Although the White House invoked an obscure export control directive when ordering the ban, the exact cause remains unclear
Summary
Then on Friday, the Trump administration renewed its war on the model maker by sending a letter demanding it ban non-Americans, including Anthropic’s employees, from accessing its state-of-the-art models: the limited-release Mythos 5 and the more guarded version of Mythos released to the public three days earlier, called Fable 5. This forced Anthropic to pull its latest all-powerful model from the market altogether. Although the White House invoked an obscure export control directive when ordering the ban, the exact cause remains unclear. This new drama comes after Anthropic famously refused to allow the government to use its models for mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.