Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

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.

China's AI capabilities are rapidly advancing, with Zhipu going so far as to start targeting the full-stack AI infrastructure. Meanwhile, the overarching US policy is largely in disarray, with the second US AI security chief now having resigned in the past three months or so. It is, therefore, high time indeed that the US and China meet to lay down some ground rules for this future-critical race, as is now scheduled to take place in September. The US and China are now scheduled to meet in September to hammer out ground rules for the ongoing AI race at a time […]

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