The U.S. company unveiled a partnership strategy spanning major firms such as Naver and Nexon on its Wednesday Korean office launch day, alongside research institutions and startups, signaling a determined push into a market it called one of its fastest-growing worldwide.
The move comes barely a week after the U.S. government issued an export control directive restricting foreign nationals' access to Anthropic's newest models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns.
Chris Ciauri, head of Anthropic International, voiced confidence that the disruption would prove short-lived.
"I'm confident access to the suspended Mythos model will resume within days," he told reporters at a briefing in Seoul, adding that he did not expect the current controls to last long.
The directive, handed down on June 12, followed claims that the safeguards on the models could be bypassed. Ciauri dismissed the jailbreak concern as a narrow scenario seen in nearly every major model released over the past six months, and defended the firm's guardrails as robust.
Pressed for further detail on the negotiations with Washington, both Ciauri and director of Anthropic's Seoul office Choi Ki-young declined to elaborate, repeatedly pointing to the company's official blog for updates.
Reports say Anthropic has dispatched a delegation of senior technical staff to Washington to thrash out a solution with the administration. Industry watchers caution that restrictions could stretch on for weeks until additional safeguards and security reviews are completed.
The export controls have also stalled the participation of Korean firms in Project Glasswing, the company's global security consortium that grants vetted partners early access to its models to probe for vulnerabilities.
Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and SK Telecom were among those reported to have joined before access was effectively frozen.
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