Anthropic has abruptly disabled its newly launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all customers to comply with an urgent export control directive from the U.S. government today.
And Anthropic cannot selectively block foreign nationals while keeping the system open, they had no choice but to take both models entirely offline worldwide.
Will we see a time in the future when Local LLM’s get the crypto export ban treatment
Good, good, the message is loud and clear: the US can and will stop any service by any company to any country without prior notice or even consultation with anyone and with zero thought given to the long-term repercussions. Every country is seen as competitor at best, enemy at worst. If you depend on any inputs from the US in any form, this will be noted as potential leverage to be used when opportune.
Worth pointing out the OAI is US based too. And Mechahitler. And Google. All at the whims of US govt
Use em if you must (the OAI honeymoon deal - with generous Codex use being included on basic subscription - is hard to beat) but remember…the cloud is someone elses computer…and you especially don’t want mission critical shit on someone elses AMERICAN computer.
OpenCode is probably the best serious cloud competition to the big 4. $10 month.
Latest versions of GLM, MiMO, Deepseek, Kimi ain’t nothing to sneeze at
https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/opencode-go-review/
https://opencode.ai/go
If someone knows better cloud deal, speak up. Else, local Qwen uber alles.