The only reason Chinese labs release their research is because they are behind. They lose nothing by doing so because the alpha has already been discovered.
replyThis is not hard to understand. Do you really think DeepSeek would publish their algorithms if they led the American companies? Lmao.
do you use american models at work because you choose to or because it's what your employer gives you? is it due to compliance with the american government? two different reasons. most people just use whatever they are given at work.
replyExcept this is clearly not true. Opus-tier models like GLM 5.2 have their weights freely available.
replyEven when they're reaching parity with American models, Z.ai, Qwen and Deepseek are upholding their end of the bargain. I'd criticize them too, if they were due any scrutiny.
I use GLM 5.2 daily. Calling it Opus tier is a bit of a misnomer. It is maybe comparable to Sonnet 5, definitely not Opus 4.8.
replyIt is a great model for the price, but it has much worse autonomy and long context performance, and I don't trust it for anything beyond personal projects, whereas I use Opus/Fable and GPT for work.