{"id":129819,"date":"2026-08-05T02:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/129819\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T02:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:47:24","slug":"us-ai-leaders-turn-to-chinese-open-weight-models-challenging-closed-source-safety-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/129819\/","title":{"rendered":"US AI leaders turn to Chinese open-weight models, challenging closed-source safety claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

More American titans of artificial intelligence are describing Chinese open-weight models as better for AI safety and security than closed-source models, challenging the long-standing claim by US closed-source AI model developers such as Anthropic that open-source models present a threat to society.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I\u2019m seeing, I think open-weight models seem safer to me than closed-weight models,\u201d AI pioneer Andrew Ng, the former head of Google Brain and former chief scientist at Baidu, said at the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley, California, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ng said that he and a colleague turned to use two Chinese models \u2013 Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi K3 and Zhipu AI\u2019s GLM-5.2 \u2013 to conduct a security review of their new open-source AI agent tool called OpenWorker, released last month, after leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic refused to help with the task.<\/p>\n

The case is but the latest example of Chinese models helping the US AI industry shore up its security. Last month, New York-headquartered open-source code repository Hugging Face also turned to GLM-5.2<\/a> to help defend against a cyberattack by OpenAI\u2019s models.<\/p>\n

The reason for the reliance on Chinese models is that the latest US models, such as OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.6 and Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5, have enhanced \u201csafeguards\u201d to refuse assisting with harmful activities.<\/p>\n

However, users have complained that these safeguards also block legitimate requests, including those to help with shoring up cybersecurity systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More American titans of artificial intelligence are describing Chinese open-weight models as better for AI safety and security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,4989,56217,53,2817,31002,387,46489,12722,3261,132,18044,334,9603,3423],"class_list":["post-129819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-ai-safety","tag-andrew-ng","tag-anthropic","tag-baidu","tag-berkeley","tag-china","tag-chinese-models","tag-cyberattacks","tag-dario-amodei","tag-google","tag-hugging-face","tag-linux-foundation","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}