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Anthropic warns Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 AI can build cyber exploits without safeguards

Anthropic published an analysis on Tuesday warning that GLM-5.3, the latest AI model from Chinese developer Zhipu AI (also known as Z.ai), can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits on par with Anthropic's own Claude Mythos Preview — but has been…

Anonymous AI model Ox Alpha tops coding benchmarks

An anonymous AI model appeared on the developer platform OpenRouter on August 20, 2026, with no company name attached, a million-token context window, and early benchmark results that have the AI community scrambling to identify its creator. The model, listed…

Zhipu AI shares tumble amid global chip selloff

Beijing-based Zhipu AI, now branded internationally as Z.ai and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Knowledge Atlas Technology, released ZCode this week — a coding-agent tool built on its GLM-5.2 model — positioning itself as a direct challenger…

U.S. export bans on AI accelerate China’s push to close the gap

A new generation of Chinese artificial intelligence models is eroding the lead long held by American labs, arriving at a moment when U.S. policy decisions may be inadvertently accelerating the shift.

Databricks, Microsoft embrace Chinese open-source AI models

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model released under the MIT license by Chinese startup Z.ai, is drawing growing adoption from American technology companies looking for cheaper, self-hosted alternatives to proprietary AI systems. Databricks and other enterprises have begun integrating…

Chinese AI matches Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity

Chinese artificial intelligence systems have achieved performance comparable to Anthropic's Mythos model in cybersecurity vulnerability discovery, according to a Wall Street Journal News Corp report published June 27, a development that threatens to undermine Washington's strategy of restricting access to…

Jefferies analyst calls Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 model ‘another DeepSeek moment’

Beijing-based Zhipu AI has rattled Silicon Valley with the release of GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model that rivals Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. Jefferies strategist Christopher Wood described the past week as…

Zhipu AI tops HK$1 trillion after open-source model rivals US leaders

Zhipu AI's market capitalization surpassed HK$1 trillion on Monday after its open-weight GLM-5.2 model emerged as the highest-performing open-source large language model in the world, scoring within a single point of Anthropic's flagship on key coding benchmarks while priced 72…

Zhipu AI surges after launching open-source rival to Claude and GPT

Beijing-based AI company Z.ai released GLM-5.2 on June 13, positioning its most powerful open-source model as a direct alternative to closed proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The release came hours after the U.S.…