June 27, 2026

A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created

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Two Asian AI companies launched products this week that position themselves as alternatives to Anthropic’s suspended Mythos and Fable 5 models. Tokyo-based Sakana AI released Fugu, an orchestration model it says matches Fable 5 on key benchmarks, whi...