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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

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CitrixNews Staff
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders.  

GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and bio capabilities, according to a new report from AI safety nonprofit SaferAI. But the divide between frontier capabilities and safety practices is growing. 

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.