Claude Fable 5 is coming back. Anthropic said the model will return to users globally on Wednesday across Claude.ai, the Claude Platform, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, after the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls that had forced it offline since June 12.
Mythos 5, the more capable sibling model built on the same underlying system, will remain limited to vetted partners.
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on…
In the report, Anthropic explained that its fix was a retrained safety classifier built specifically to catch the reported technique. The company says it now blocks that bypass in more than 99% of attempts, and any flagged Fable 5 request gets automatically rerouted to Claude Opus 4.8 with a notification to the user.
Researchers at the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation reviewed the new and prior safeguards and called them extraordinarily strong, though Anthropic acknowledged the tighter filter will also be prone to false alarms.
In other words, the already strict and overcautious Fable will be even more cautious by design.
Access details vary by plan. Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise subscribers get Fable 5 included for up to half their weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it shifts to usage credits, which means the new window is smaller than the original—six days at 50% cap versus 13 days at full inclusion. Ultimately, users are getting less free access than they would have without the ban, even accounting for the second window, saving Anthropic all that computing budget.
Availability on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry will follow "as quickly as possible," per the company, leaving cloud-hosted enterprise deployments waiting a bit longer than Claude's native apps.
Anthropic is now proposing a shared way to grade future jailbreaks with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, scoring each on capability gain, breadth, ease of weaponization, and discoverability. It also committed to giving the government earlier access to test frontier models and their safeguards before public release, and opened a new HackerOne program for researchers to report Fable 5 bypass techniques directly.
