Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking

Summary

Vals tested AI models on multi-step attacks against simulated corporate networks and found that open-weight models now come close to closed ones. OpenAI's restricted Daybreak completed 81 percent of tasks on average, while DeepSeek completed 73 percent, and Vals estimates an attack costs $17 to $46 in tokens with GPT-6-Sol versus $2 to $3 with DeepSeek.

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