Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 matches Anthropic's Mythos in bug-finding tasks, researchers say
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Divya Bhati
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Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model that researchers claim can match Anthropic's Mythos in certain bug-finding tasks and even outperformed OpenAI's GPT-55 on select agentic tool-use benchmarks. This development signals that Chinese AI models are narrowing the gap with top US systems in cybersecurity and other domains, adding pressure to Silicon Valley's AI ambitions amid ongoing US-China tech competition.
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· 3 pulledChinese artificial intelligence models are catching up with top US systems in cybersecurity.
China has once again shaken up Silicon Valley's AI ambitions.
Researchers claim that Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI's latest open-weight model, GLM-5.2, can match Anthropic's flagship Mythos model in certain bug-finding tasks.
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