{"id":81689,"date":"2026-06-22T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/81689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:38:13","slug":"is-china-ai-ready-to-match-anthropics-fable-5-musk-zhipus-tang-clash-over-glm-5-2-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/81689\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China AI ready to match Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5? Musk, Zhipu\u2019s Tang clash over GLM-5.2 rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese AI model capable of matching Anthropic\u2019s flagship Claude Fable 5 could arrive before the end of this year, according to the founder of Zhipu AI, escalating the global <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3357449\/chinas-trillion-parameter-ai-race-how-developers-strive-narrow-gap-us-rivals?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">frontier model race<\/a> after the release of Zhipu\u2019s GLM-5.2.The prediction emerged from a rare online exchange between Zhipu founder and chief scientist Tang Jie and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sca_esv=71a377e1d78119b4&amp;rlz=1C1GCEU_enHK1182HK1182&amp;sxsrf=APpeQnu2O9jLgzBLPd_-6y30hspIgRYpKQ:1782118194885&amp;q=elon+musk+and+scmp&amp;tbm=nws&amp;source=lnms&amp;fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8cY2oODYyTyZk24Xz37_7FQ0Kuh3jfnRqiKzI7KrGsO-a7vPN0oJUPXgT9BPYDfgnNv0ZlTDhPHW1D2eptEeZsJC3r6JSbH8DUFuX2V0DVL6k-QtdV8JUxqozi3j1NMgH6JoPqJf6mrqvOc5t-BkJ2V1Cqi9WLQyZ6Yyvz_mcPka0PtK00lqx-JJgWSwG2k9fEeYoYYA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi9rNDPu5qVAxXMWusIHSbnMGMQ0pQJegQIChAB&amp;biw=1434&amp;bih=772&amp;dpr=1.5\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">US tech trillionaire Elon Musk<\/a>, sparking fresh debate over the narrowing artificial intelligence gap between the US and China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On social media platform X last week, Musk \u2013 founder of xAI, Tesla and SpaceX \u2013 responded to a post discussing when China could potentially produce a rival to Fable 5 \u2013 currently regarded as the world\u2019s most advanced model. Musk projected the timeline would \u201cprobably\u201d be the first quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tang replied that it \u201cwon\u2019t take that long\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His confident comment came as Zhipu\u2019s newly released 744 billion-parameter GLM-5.2 model recently secured the No 2 spot globally on benchmark firm Code Arena\u2019s rankings for front-end coding abilities, trailing only Fable 5.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zhipu\u2019s GLM-5.2 has been ranked No 2 globally for front-end coding abilities, trailing only Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f30ae3a9-ca16-4573-ba24-6085169970e0_8d548d6f.jpg\" title=\"Zhipu\u2019s GLM-5.2 has been ranked No 2 globally for front-end coding abilities, trailing only Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Zhipu\u2019s GLM-5.2 has been ranked No 2 globally for front-end coding abilities, trailing only Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The launch propelled Zhipu to the world\u2019s third-best AI lab, behind Silicon Valley heavyweights Anthropic and OpenAI, according to the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese AI model capable of matching Anthropic\u2019s flagship Claude Fable 5 could arrive before the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,53,38506,387,140,38159,926,2700,2040,33030,157,1161,156,6326,9756],"class_list":["post-81689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index","tag-china","tag-elon-musk","tag-fable","tag-glm","tag-hong-kong","tag-jpmorgan","tag-knowledge-atlas-technology","tag-openai","tag-silicon-valley","tag-us","tag-x","tag-zhipu-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81689","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=81689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}