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Chinese Open-Weight AI Model Raises Cybersecurity Worries Over Advanced Capabilities<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/chinese-open-weight-ai-model-raises-cybersecurity-worries-over-advanced-capabilities-3804610<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-26 18:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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A new Chinese artificial intelligence model is raising cybersecurity fears over its advanced capabilities, which match recent versions of giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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A new Chinese artificial intelligence model is raising cybersecurity fears due to its advanced capabilities, which appear to be on par with Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, Axios reported. The model is also about half the cost of its U.S.-based counterparts.”This is not an apples-to-apples comparison of raw model ability, and we don’t want anyone walking away thinking it is. Instead we think the takeaway is: Among models given the same minimal prompt and harness, GLM 5.2 a open-weight model, \u2159 the cost of a frontier LLM beat Claude Code at a genuinely difficult security research task,” an analysis by Semgrep said.A Graphistry analysis of GLM-5.2 stated that it might be an “illegal distillation of both GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8.” The analysis further noted that “Anthropic reported several months ago that Chinese-origin model companies are performing distillation attacks to steal their model weights, so high correlation scores and similar incorrect answers are noteworthy.”The open-weight nature of GLM-5.2 also means that it could create cybersecurity issues. Axios reported that GLM-5.2 can be downloaded and modified. That means that safety controls can be removed and that it can be altered for specific tasks independently.The fear is that hackers could take GLM-5.2, which performs well in comparison with some of the most advanced U.S.-based AI models, and use it for nefarious purposes.Jason Baker, managing security consultant at GuidePoint Security, told Axios that Russian-language forums already included discussions about the ease of taking GLM-5.2 and transforming it for use in hacking.Travis Lanham, CTO and founder of Armadin, added that GLM-5.2 might allow hackers to personalize their attacks and find creative ways to beat systems.”An attacker can run it locally without safety guardrails, fine-tune it against their specific targets, and operate with zero visibility to any provider or defender,” Lanham told the outlet.
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