Chinese AI Models Rival Claude
Chinese open AI models are catching up fast, and SF developers are already using them for coding. Here is how they stack up. 🚀
What the video says
"These are like genuinely good models that people are comparing to on their internal trading benchmarks," says podcast host Nathan Lambert. Chinese open artificial intelligence models are now demonstrating capabilities comparable to frontier US models like Claude Sonnet.
The picture that emerges shows developers actively integrating these tools. Florian Brand observed that professionals in San Francisco are genuinely using GLM 5.2 for agentic coding workflows.
He suggests developers can go really far using KIMI K3 as the main agent and GLM for sub-agent tasks. Yet, the weights for GLM 5.2 have not been released yet.
Observers point out that buying external data is helping these open models catch up to closed ones. On balance, the rapid rise of these Chinese open models is pressuring American developers to accelerate their own innovation.
