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, ⅙ the cost of a frontier LLM beat Claude Code at a genuinely difficult security research task," an analysis by Semgrep said.
