AI<\/a>-enabled breaches, attackers tricked models into thinking they \u2060were doing legitimate defense work, leaving AI firms wary of easing safeguards even as cyber professionals say the guardrails can hamper their work. <\/p>\nFor now, the fallout is handing another boost to Chinese open-source models such as GLM-5.2, which are gaining traction in Silicon Valley with coding and agentic capabilities that nearly rival those of OpenAI \u200band \u200bAnthropic at lower cost. <\/p>\n
Beijing has also been increasingly using open-source to position itself as \u200ban alternative to the U.S. in the high-stakes race, with \u200cChinese state media increasingly portraying the strategy as a response to what it calls a U.S.-led attempt to erect an “AI Iron Curtain.” <\/p>\n
“A safety regime that restricts legitimate defenders, while capable models remain available for attackers, creates an asymmetric disadvantage,” said Lukasz Olejnik, independent technology consultant and visiting senior research fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. <\/p>\n
“This gap will only widen as open-source models become increasingly powerful while lacking guardrails or restrictions.” <\/p>\n
GROWING PROMINENCE OF OPEN-SOURCE <\/p>\n
OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday on whether their safeguards were hindering cybersecurity work. <\/p>\n
The ChatGPT maker said in \u200ca blog post on Tuesday: “We’ve brought Hugging Face into the trusted access program and \u200bare supporting their teams in rapidly using our models’ capabilities to improve their defenses.” <\/p>\n
For Beijing-based \u200bZhipu AI, Hugging Face’s endorsement adds to the momentum GLM-5.2 has \u200bbuilt since its launch last month. <\/p>\n
The model has rapidly climbed usage charts on developer platforms such as OpenRouter and \u200cdrawn plaudits from figures ranging from Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy \u200bto venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. <\/p>\n
Zhipu AI , which \u200braised about $4 billion in a Hong Kong share sale earlier this month, has also seen its stock jump nearly nine-fold since its debut in January. <\/p>\n
Still, some analysts warned on Wednesday that the incident should not be used to promote loosening of U.S. safeguards. <\/p>\n
“The cybersecurity guardrails on \u200bU.S. frontier models are creating a competitive opening, \u200cbut the answer is not simply to remove them,” said Shrenik Kothari, analyst at Robert W. Baird. <\/p>\n
“OpenAI, Anthropic and Google should rethink \u200bthe architecture of access rather than abandon safety … In other words, shift from a one-size-fits-all refusal layer toward controlled capability \u200ballocation.” <\/p>\n
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