At the G7 Summit, French President Macron and Indian PM Modi led a chorus of allied-nation concerns about the US government's demonstrated ability to unilaterally cut global access to American AI models — crystallised by the Trump administration's suspension of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Macron warned that sudden access cuts could "harm the economies of European customers" and damage AI firms themselves. Modi stated that "democratic nations must have unfettered access to top AI models to protect critical infrastructure." Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez added: "companies and democratic nations remaining dependent on a small handful of big tech companies is dangerous to resilience."
The outcome now under discussion: a "trusted partners" scheme that would guarantee continued AI model access for allied nations regardless of US domestic political decisions. This is the first time G7 nations have collectively pushed back on the US's unilateral AI export control power — and it directly escalates the AI sovereignty debate that has been building since the Anthropic ban. Cybersecurity experts continue to argue the original Fable 5 ban was politically motivated, noting comparable capabilities exist in freely available competing models.