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Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 Beats US Models Amid Chinese Distillation Accusations

7/10/2026

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Z.ai released GLM-5.2, which Marc Andreessen said often beats American public models.
Anthropic accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of illicitly distilling its outputs.
Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. senators alleging Alibaba runs the same attacks at industrial scale.
The New York Times said the legality of these practices is unclear.
Experts said Z.ai’s model cannot be explained solely by distillation, showing Chinese rivals now match U.S. firms.

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Z.ai released GLM-5.2, which Marc Andreessen said often beats American public models.
Anthropic accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of illicitly distilling its outputs.
Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. senators alleging Alibaba runs the same attacks at industrial scale.
The New York Times said the legality of these practices is unclear.
Experts said Z.ai’s model cannot be explained solely by distillation, showing Chinese rivals now match U.S. firms.