{"id":507539,"date":"2026-07-03T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:41:13","slug":"a-new-inexpensive-chinese-ai-model-is-catching-up-with-anthropic-openai-on-their-home-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507539\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00a0new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\/BENGALURU \u2013 Since DeepSeek shocked markets early last year with its cheap but powerful artificial intelligence model, global consumers have been faced with a choice: Chinese offerings with lower prices and less capability or OpenAI or Anthropic, which have poured billions into development.<\/p>\n<p>A model called GLM-5.2, launched last month by Beijing-based startup Z.ai, may finally be closing that gap in terms of Western interest.<\/p>\n<p>GLM-5.2 has Silicon Valley buzzing with its coding and agent capabilities, or the ability to execute complex tasks with minimal prompting, that almost rival leading U.S. offerings at a fraction of the cost, in what some \u200bexperts are calling a \u201cmini DeepSeek moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING\/BENGALURU \u2013 Since DeepSeek shocked markets early last year with its cheap but powerful artificial intelligence model, global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6166,363,364,607,111,139,69,620,145],"class_list":["post-507539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-openai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}