Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5
Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
GLM-5.2 - How to Run Locally | Unsloth Documentation
Run the new GLM-5.2 model by Z.ai on local hardware!
The frontier is open-source today
GLM-5.2 - open weights - single-shot our AI-resistant backend take-home to a higher level than Opus 4.8, and built offmute-v2: state-of-the-art timestamp-accurate diarization. A head-to-head with no detail glossed over.
5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.
GLM-5.3 and the Spread of Advanced Cyber Capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (Stratechery Article 7-20-2026)
We Must Pace The Frontier
Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.
Physics of LM: Part 4.2, Canon Layers at Scale where Synthetic Pretraining Resonates in Reality
pi-ds4 · Audrey Tang
Run a frontier model on your own machine with stable, contestable decision traces. Full install, steering, reproducibility, and tuning guide.
Le paradoxe de la mondialisation de la Chine
Traduction française du billet de blog "China’s globalisation paradox. How can China dominate abroad while becoming less export-dependent?" de Richard
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
The Land That Failed to Fail (Published 2018)
The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting.
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2
