Perplexity CEO on China catching up in AI:
“Whatever you did to not let them catch up didn’t even matter. They ended up catching up anyway.
What’s more dangerous is they have the best open-source model. And all the American developers are building on that.”
That was DeepSeek.
Now just dropped GLM-5.2:
• MIT open weights
• 1M context
• 81.0 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
• within a few points of Claude Opus 4.8
The open-source AI race is not theory anymore.