Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

The days of cheap Chinese AI models could be number as government mulls restrictions similar to the US

Chinese officials have reportedly discussed limiting foreign access to the country’s most advanced closed and open-weight AI models over national-security concerns

Chinese AI lab says it can match Anthropic’s all-poweful Claude Mythos at sniffing security bugs

The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s GLM-5.2 AI model can match Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity tasks, signaling a rapidly narrowing AI gap.