China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
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China's Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model (a publicly available AI that can be freely used and modified) that some researchers say performs as well as Mythos in cybersecurity tasks like finding bugs. While GLM still lags behind US models in general capabilities, this development shows China has significantly narrowed the gap with American AI systems, which concerns the US government that has tried to limit China's access to advanced models and the computing hardware needed to train them.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958804/chinas-z-ai-glm-52-mythos-cybersecurity
First tracked: June 28, 2026 at 08:00 PM
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