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The China AI Manifesto Scaring the West — And Its Own Investors

Zhipu AI’s open letter is neither a geopolitical threat nor a compelling defence of the LLM business.

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Adrian Monck
Jul 12, 2026
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1 One Letter, Two Readings

In the frenzied geopolitical contest over artificial intelligence, messages get easily distorted – and this weekend provided a spectacular example. The man behind GLM-5.2, China’s latest open source LLM sensation, wrote something that quickly got tr…

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