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Can China’s New GLM-5.2 AI Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic?
Chinese artificial intelligence developers have rapidly narrowed the technological gap with U.S. rivals over the past two years. While companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic continue to dominate frontier AI development, Chinese firms have increasingly focused on producing lower-cost, open-weight models that can be deployed more easily by businesses and developers. The latest entrant, GLM-5.2 [] The post Can China’s New GLM-5.2 AI Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic? appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.
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South China Morning Post
· Jun 29, 2026
AI agents that provide ‘economic value’ are next frontier, says Meta AI research chief
The next frontier of artificial intelligence will be agents that can perform “economically valuable” work across a broad range of real-world domains, according to Dawn Song, Meta Platforms’ new vice-president of AI research. “The goal is not to replace humans,” Song told the South China Morning Post last week on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, also known as Summer Davos, days before joining Meta. “But we want these AI agents to be more effective in these important real-world...
The Economic Times
· Jul 2, 2026
A new Chinese AI model catching up with Anthropic
A new Chinese AI model catching up with Anthropic
Investing.com
· Jul 2, 2026
Analysis-A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf
Analysis-A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf
Borneo Bulletin
· Jul 6, 2026
World must not let AI ‘vibe-code’ humanity’s future: UN chief
World must not let AI ‘vibe-code’ humanity’s future: UN chief
Bloomberg
· Jun 22, 2026
Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI
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TechCrunch
· Jul 8, 2026
This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment
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