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An open model from China beat Claude on a security test -- at a sixth of the cost News
Semgrep ran GLM 5.2 against Claude on a narrow vulnerability-finding task and the free, open-weight model came out ahead for far less money.
Are closed AI models overpriced luxury goods? News
An essay argues open-weight models now undercut the big closed AIs by huge margins, and that 'China fears' are being used to protect those prices.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the biggest 'copy Claude' campaign yet News
Anthropic told U.S. senators that Alibaba's Qwen team quietly milked Claude for its best skills. Alibaba says nothing back, and the whole fight may be as much about price as theft.
The Model Ban Is Quietly Redrawing the AI Map News
Two weeks after the US pulled its top models off the market, a Chinese open model sits atop the global download charts and the community is busy rebuilding the banned capability in the open.
A Free Model That Splits Your Work Across 300 Helpers News
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 is a frontier-grade model anyone can download, and its headline trick is fanning a single job out to hundreds of helpers working in parallel.