India, July 1 -- Cognitive warmup. China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has an open-weight GLM-5.2 model which some researchers insist matches Anthropic's controversial Mythos in certain cybersecurity and vulnerability identification tasks. It must be noted that while GLM lags compared to other models from Anthropic and OpenAI in more general tasks, this is a representation that Chinese AI models have systematically reduced the gap in average capabilities compared with other AI companies.

GLM-5.2 continues to rank among the 10 most-used AI models on OpenRouter's LLM leaderboard, siting alongside models from Anthropic, Deepseek, Xiaomi and Tencent. In some benchmarking tests, according to cybersecurity company Semgrep, GLM-5.2 performed better than An...