Trump says Anthropic is no national-security threat after Commerce ordered foreign-access restrictions on its top AI models. The statement removes a key IPO risk, the Pentagon feud remains.
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President Donald Trump said he does not view Anthropic PBC as a national-security threat, days after his administration ordered the company to restrict foreign access to its most advanced AI models.
In a pretaped interview with Axios posted Friday, Trump said Anthropic had “behaved very responsibly” following the Commerce Department directive covering its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. “He responded to us very quickly, because you know it’s tremendous liability,” Trump said, referring to CEO Dario Amodei. The president met with Amodei and other tech executives at the Group of Seven Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on Wednesday.
Asked if he thought Anthropic and Amodei are a national security threat, Trump said, “Well, not now. A week ago, maybe.”
The Commerce Department’s directive, issued last week, is the most significant U.S. government intervention into an AI venture’s operations to date. It lands weeks after Anthropic filed confidentially for an initial public offering at a valuation above $900 billion.
Anthropic’s senior technical staff met with Trump administration officials this week as the company tried to ease government concerns. Trump said he would not shut down Anthropic, arguing the U.S. is beating China in the AI race. “I would, I’m not sure I have to do that. I think so far it’s been very responsible,” he said.
The dispute over access to Anthropic’s new models is the latest clash between the administration and the company. Anthropic has been feuding with the Pentagon for months over extra guardrails it sought for military use of its AI tools. In March, after contract talks broke down, the Defense Department declared the firm a supply-chain risk and is moving to find other AI providers for the armed forces.
For IPO investors, the timeline matters. Anthropic’s confidential filing came weeks before the Commerce order. A national-security designation could have complicated the offering, potentially triggering CFIUS review or forcing disclosure of foreign-user restrictions in the S-1. Trump’s public statement removes that overhang for now. The Pentagon feud remains unresolved, a separate risk for any public listing.
The Commerce directive itself creates an operational constraint. Anthropic must now vet foreign users of its two most capable models before granting access. That adds friction to a sales cycle that targets enterprise clients, many with global workforces. Competitors like OpenAI and Google DeepMind face no equivalent restriction on their frontier models, giving them a potential edge in multinational deployments.
Anthropic declined to comment beyond the statements attributed to Trump in the interview.
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