BEIJING/BENGALURU ¨C 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.
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.
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 ?experts are calling a ¡°mini DeepSeek moment.¡±
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