Chinese AI Matches Anthropic on Cybersecurity Tasks

Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 model matches Anthropic's Mythos in cybersecurity vulnerability-detection tasks, according to security researchers and benchmarks. The open-weight model, also ranked among top 10 most-used systems on OpenRouter, narrows the gap between offensive and defensive capabilities, while 360 Security Technology's Tulongfeng tool performs on par with Mythos.

Industry context: parity in vulnerability-detection models matters for practitioners because identical tooling narrows the gap between offensive and defensive capabilities and changes operational risk management. Security researchers told the Wall Street Journal that Zhipu AI 's GLM-5.2 can match Anthropic 's Mythos in some bug-finding scenarios, according to reporting cited by multiple outlets. Semgrep benchmarked GLM-5.2 ahead of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 in some tests, per reporting in the New York Post. OpenRouter, a model-access provider, ranks GLM-5.2 among the top 10 most-used systems, the New York Post reports. Chinese firm 360 Security Technology unveiled a bug-finding tool called Tulongfeng , which outlets say performs on par with Mythos . Reporting in NDTV notes that GLM-5.2 is distributed as an open-weight model that users can download and modify.