China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity

China's Zhipu AI has released its open-weight GLM-5.2 model, which researchers claim can match Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. Although GLM-5.2 lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in more general tasks, it represents a significant reduction in the capability gap between Chinese and US models. This advancement is concerning to the US government, which has restricted China's access to powerful models and necessary hardware. The development suggests China is rapidly closing the technological gap with the US in the field of artificial intelligence.

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