PANews, June 27 – The U.S. export restrictions on Anthropic's high-end AI models have now been in effect for two weeks, Techcrunch reports. The overseas supply gap is prompting Asian AI vendors to accelerate the deployment of homegrown alternatives.

Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 has launched Tulongfeng (图龙锋), an AI-powered vulnerability discovery tool positioned as a counterpart to the overseas Mythos series. Japanese AI startup Sakana AI has released its new model Fugu, whose overall capabilities rival Fable 5 and Mythos Preview. It relies on a unified API to enable multi-model collaborative scheduling and an AI agent auto-orchestration architecture.

Industry analysis notes that while many enterprises still recognize the value of U.S. models in the Asian market, the supply constraints are driving rapid deployment of locally developed solutions in China and Japan. The global AI industry is gradually showing a trend of regional ecosystem divergence, and the pace of building autonomous and controllable AI infrastructure has notably accelerated.