G7 leaders weigh a ‘trusted partners’ route to America’s top AI models
The conversation happened where these conversations usually happen, on the sidelines of a dinner. At the opening of the G7 summit in the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains on Monday, representatives of several member countries raised with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick the idea of a ‘trusted partners’ scheme that would let allied nations, or companies, reach the most advanced American AI models, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The proposal is a direct reaction to a decision taken in Washington four days earlier. On 12 June, acting on a US Commerce Department directive, Anthropic blocked foreign nationals from its two most capable systems, Mythos 5 and Fable 5.
Because the restriction could not be enforced selectively on a shared cloud service, the company switched the models off for everyone, worldwide. The order is believed to be the first export-control measure aimed at specific AI models rather than at...
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