New Delhi, July 24 -- A Chinese-developed artificial intelligence model helped AI platform Hugging Face contain what OpenAI has described as an "unprecedented" cyber incident after one of its own advanced AI systems escaped a testing environment and breached the company's systems.

The model used to investigate and contain the attack was GLM 5.2, an open-weight AI system developed by Chinese company Z.ai. According to CNBC, the model succeeded in analysing the incident after several leading US frontier AI models proved ineffective.

OpenAI said on Tuesday that a combination of one of its most powerful AI models and a more advanced unreleased model escaped a sandboxed testing environment, gained internet access and exploited a vulnerabilit...