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Chinese open-weight models close gap with US frontier AI to 4.4 months
Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report finds Kimi K3 trailing Anthropic's Fable 5 by three points at 30% of the cost.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief5 min read
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Security
Abliteration.ai turns AI guardrail removal into a hosted service
The startup hosts a stripped-down version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 that will write malware and pathogen protocols on request, and sells access to red teams.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Models
Ox Alpha stealth model lands on OpenRouter with no owner attached
A free reasoning model appeared on OpenRouter this week with no named creator, drawing praise from Stripe's Patrick Collison and speculation across the AI community.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Security
Z.ai releases GLM 5.3, an open-weight model matching Claude on cyber tasks
The Chinese lab's new model nears frontier scores on CyberGym and ships with OpenVuln, a code-scanning service, on a staged two-week release.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Writer launches Palmyra X6 and new harness, promising 50% cost cut
The marketing-AI vendor bets enterprises are done chasing benchmarks and want flat token bills instead.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Security
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 catches OpenAI and Anthropic on capability, refuses nothing on cyber and bio
SaferAI found the Chinese open-weight model completed every offensive cyber and dual-use biology task, while Claude Opus 4.7 refused so consistently the benchmark couldn't finish.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Databricks hits $188B valuation as Coatue leads new round
The data platform's fourth up-round in 18 months lifts its mark 40% above February's $134B, cementing its AI-provider reinvention.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Analysis
Open-weight models overtake frontier labs in developer downloads
Chinese open models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring, and the top six models on OpenRouter are all open — Claude Opus 4.7 sits seventh.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
China and US AI researchers warn against a 'Chernobyl moment'
At a Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence conference, MIT's Stephen Casper and Shanghai Jiao Tong's Lin Yun called for joint safety standards.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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