India’s best defence against an AI cut-off is a coalition it should help lead

On 12 June, the United States Department of Commerce gave Anthropic, one of America’s leading artificial intelligence companies, 90 minutes to restrict its two most powerful models to US citizens. Rather than building nationality checks at that notice, the company withdrew the models — Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — from the market altogether. Overnight, researchers, doctors, educators, and developers in more than a hundred countries, India among them, lost access to tools many had built their work around.