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Asian Firms Launch AI Models After U.S. Ban on Anthropic Systems
Chinese firm 360 and Tokyo startup Sakana AI released new tools this week that target capabilities restricted by a U.S. export ban on Anthropic products. The moves follow the Trump administration's order two weeks earlier limiting access to Mythos and Fable 5.
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Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 unveiled an AI tool called Tulongfeng on Wednesday that it says matches the capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos, TechCrunch reported. The same week Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier model the company described as standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos Preview.
The launches occurred after the Trump administration banned Mythos and its more restricted version, Fable 5, from non-American users two weeks earlier.
Sakana AI’s website now advertises delivery of frontier capability without the risk of export controls. A Sakana spokesperson told TechCrunch the timing of the Fugu release was coincidental. The company has been developing the model since last year, with underlying research presented at ICLR this spring.
Sakana was co-founded in 2023 by former Google researchers Ren Ito, Llion Jones and David Ha and focuses on affordable generative models optimized for Japanese language and culture. Sakana co-founder Ren Ito spoke at the G7 summit in Evian last week on AI access and export controls. In a Project Syndicate op-ed the same week he urged the U.S.
Government to preserve access for close allies and argued that AI should be developed together rather than hoarded. Sakana CEO David Ha wrote on X that orchestration models represent the next frontier beyond bigger models. He added that access to top models can disappear overnight and that collective intelligence serves as a hedge against concentration of power.
360 also introduced Yitianzhen, an AI tool for automated cyber defense and incident response. Company founder Zhou Hongyi told Reuters that vulnerability-finding AI constitutes a national strategic asset and warned of the risk of one-way transparency. Anthropic reported a $47 billion run-rate revenue in May 2026.
