{"id":261545,"date":"2025-11-04T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:50:09","slug":"ai-coding-tools-built-by-us-firms-face-scrutiny-over-chinese-model-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261545\/","title":{"rendered":"AI coding tools built by US firms face scrutiny over Chinese model origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two major US artificial intelligence-powered coding tools released in the past week are suspected of being built on Chinese models, sparking debate about the ethics of commercialising open models without crediting their original developers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cognition AI\u2019s latest SWE-1.5 model achieved \u201cnear state of the art\u201d coding performance while also setting a record for generation speed, according to the San Francisco-based developer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company, valued at US$10.2 billion, said in a blog post that SWE-1.5 was built \u201con top of a leading open-source base model\u201d without naming it, sparking speculation that it was Beijing-based Zhipu AI\u2019s GLM series of foundational models after users asked the tool what model it was.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhipu AI, marketed internationally as Z.ai, said it believed SWE-1.5 used its latest flagship GLM-4.6 as the base model in a statement on Tuesday. Cognition AI did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zhipu AI said it believed US company Cognition AI used its latest flagship GLM-4.6 as the base model. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ac13799f-7c7e-4438-8e20-78b9ab1dc431_b6acfad7.jpg\" title=\"Zhipu AI said it believed US company Cognition AI used its latest flagship GLM-4.6 as the base model. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Zhipu AI said it believed US company Cognition AI used its latest flagship GLM-4.6 as the base model. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, another US coding giant, Cursor, which recently tripled its valuation to US$9.9 billion in just six months, introduced a new tool called Composer, also with powerful coding capabilities and rapid generation speed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, users quickly noticed that the model generated reasoning traces in Chinese, leading some observers to conclude that its base model \u2013 the underlying model providing the raw intelligence for the tool \u2013 was also Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two major US artificial intelligence-powered coding tools released in the past week are suspected of being built on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,8580,49,48,27958,65501,121208,7704,121204,121206,121205,25824,5886,121202,61,121203,182,9664,121207],"class_list":["post-261545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chinese","tag-cognition-ai","tag-composer","tag-cursor","tag-florian-brand","tag-glm-series","tag-glm-4-6","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-san-francisco","tag-swe-1-5","tag-technology","tag-trier-university","tag-us","tag-x","tag-zhipu-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}