ZCode Launches Free - GLM-5.2 Comes for Claude Code
Z.ai's free agentic IDE ships Goal Mode, multi-agent coordination, and pricing up to 82% cheaper than Claude Code - with a concrete China data law risk that teams need to weigh.
Articles Tagged "China"
DeepSeek Moves Into Chip Design to Beat Export Controls
DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip, confirmed by Reuters sources - the first semiconductor project in the lab's history, driven by US export controls that cut off China from Nvidia hardware and HBM memory.
China's Companion Law Forces Doubao, Qwen Offline
China's new AI anthropomorphic interaction rules take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down persistent AI companion features and permanently delete user conversation data.
LongCat-2.0 Review: China's Stealth Coder
Meituan's 1.6T open-source coding model secretly topped OpenRouter for two months before revealing itself - and the price-to-performance math is hard to argue with.
Anthropic Caught Qwen Running 25,000 Fake Claude Accounts
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 25,000 fraudulent accounts that extracted 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest AI distillation attack on record.
Alibaba Bans Claude Code, Citing Hidden Tracking Code
Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software after a researcher alleged version 2.1.91 silently identified Chinese corporate users, escalating a bitter distillation war between the two companies.
LongCat-2.0
Meituan's 1.6T-parameter open-source MoE coding model, trained end-to-end on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs, with native 1M token context and a 59.5 SWE-bench Pro score.
Meituan's LongCat-2.0 Was Topping OpenRouter in Disguise
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T MoE model trained on 50,000 Chinese ASICs that secretly topped OpenRouter under the alias Owl Alpha.
GLM-5.2 Review: Best Open-Weight Coder at 1/6 Cost
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 delivers frontier coding performance with open weights and MIT license at roughly one-sixth the cost of GPT-5.5 - but can it replace Claude Opus 4.8?
Ban on Anthropic Models Fuels Asia's AI Race
Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.
Anthropic Tells Senate Alibaba Stole Claude's Capabilities
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.
Dreamina Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's top-ranked AI video generation model with native joint audio-video synthesis, multi-shot support, and multimodal reference inputs across up to 12 files per generation.
