--- title: "As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future" url: https://daily.dev/posts/as-anthropic-suspends-access-to-new-models-india-debates-its-ai-future-whqrarvbi source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/as-anthropic-suspends-access-to-new-models-india-debates-its-ai-future type: article source: "TechCrunch" published: 2026-06-14T03:05:08.632Z updated: 2026-06-14T16:08:05.307Z tags: ["ai", "open-source", "anthropic"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic's suspension of access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, following a U.S. government directive, has sparked intense debate in India about AI sovereignty. Indian founders, investors, and policy experts are questioning whether India can afford to rely on a handful of U.S. frontier AI providers. Reactions range from calls to embrace open-source and domestic models to proposals for a massive national AI investment fund of up to $26 billion. The episode is seen as a geopolitical wake-up call, with one expert noting that 'American AI models are bound to American geopolitics.' India's AI ecosystem remains largely application-focused, with only a few startups pursuing foundational model development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/as-anthropic-suspends-access-to-new-models-india-debates-its-ai-future-whqrarvbi)