New Chinese model adds to AI competition

Chinese AI startup Zhipu has unveiled its latest model, GLM-5.3, which has outperformed Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark and narrowed the gap in coding capabilities, according to Semafor. This marks the most recent instance of a Chinese open-weight model claiming parity with the Western AI frontier, following the startup's last release in June, as noted by Bloomberg.

With the US government drafting plans to require countries to choose a side in the US-China AI competition, the White House is seeking to limit China's progress, as reported by Reuters. The Trump administration's stance on China's open-weight models has been a subject of concern, despite some attempts to ease restrictions on the sale of US chips, a policy that has been described as "incoherent" by a Council on Foreign Relations expert.

Brief written by urgent.news from Semafor's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.