{"id":46713,"date":"2025-08-06T02:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T02:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:01:05","slug":"chinas-z-ai-and-americas-self-defeating-ai-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46713\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Z.ai and America\u2019s Self-Defeating AI Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">China\u2019s DeepSeek shocked the global AI community in January by building a frontier model at a fraction of Western costs. Now it has been outdone by a Chinese company subject to U.S. sanctions. It has become painfully obvious that Washington\u2019s strategy of restricting chip exports isn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, last week launched GLM-4.5, a production-level open-source model priced at 13% of DeepSeek\u2019s cost. It matches or exceeds Western standards in coding, reasoning and tool use. Z.ai runs on only eight <a data-type=\"company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/NVDA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nvidia<\/a> H20 chips, which Nvidia recently gained reapproval to sell in China. That\u2019s better performance than DeepSeek with about half the hardware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. 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