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12, 26. I'm Brian McCullough today.

And right on time. Here come the Chinese AI models. Elon Musk kicks off a major reorg of XAI.

Google is warning of AI distillation attacks. New Waymo cars hit the road. And another interesting AI essay to read to you.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well, the deluge has begun, the deluge of Chinese AI models, I mean.

ZAI, also known as Jipu, has launched GLM-5, saying its flagship open-weight model

has, quote, best-in-class performance among all open-source models in reasoning, coding, and

agentic tasks. Note again, open-wates, as Chinese companies are wont to do, but also they're

going after the hotness right now, which is, of course, agents.

Quoting Reuters, the open source GLM5 model features enhanced coding capabilities

and the ability to perform long-running agent tasks approaching rival Anthropics,

Claude Opus 4.5 in coding benchmark tests and surpassing Google's Gemini 3 Pro

on some benchmarks, the company

said in a press release. The latest model was developed using domestically manufactured chips

for inference, including Huawei's flagship Ascend chip and products from leading industry players

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