Now a startup called Legion says in a new lawsuit against the government that CloudFable 5 was so important to its business that, “Every day this directive remains in place, Legion’s products and operations are disrupted, its engineers are sidelined, and the company’s ability to survive in a field defined by continued access to the most capable models is destroyed. according to bloombergWho drew that line from filing in court.
Well, Legion is an AI company for lawyers. According to its about page, its product works like this:
“Upload your case documents. Legion prepares your pleadings, discovery, and motions in minutes – with built-in editing tools for refinement and shipping.
Export fully formatted Word documents or bookmarked PDFs with displays and slip sheets. Ready to file, ready to serve.”
Legion CEO Arthur Rothrock told Bloomberg, “Who’s to say they can’t do the same against another company like OpenAI?”
When Anthropic removed Fable 5, Legion says it “instantly lost the latest tool at the heart of its development”, causing “immediate, irreparable and existential” damage, according to Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg, Legion’s staff also includes Canadian citizens based in Canada.
The Fable 5 model, the most advanced, consumer-facing version of the cloud, was part of the same class as the Cloud Mythos preview models, which Anthropic deemed too dangerous to release to the public. Fable arrived about two months later, advertised as a version of Mythos with elaborate and specific security measures.
But soon after its release, the government was informed – according to media reports from multiple publications – that Amazon researchers had found solutions that circumvented the security measures.
This, combined with alleged previous concerns that China-linked entities had access to Mythos, apparently led to the export control order, requiring Anthropic to keep Mythos and Fable away from any US citizens. Faced with implementing an almost impossibly complex citizenship-verification scheme using the Fable 5, Anthropic announced it was shutting it down.
Efforts are on to solve the matter. The statement that Anthopik provided to Bloomberg when asked about the suit said it was “grateful to the administration” and “committed to working with the government toward our shared goals of protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring that the United States is a leader in AI.” The White House and the Commerce Department apparently did not respond to Bloomberg.
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