{"id":738555,"date":"2026-07-13T04:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T04:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:35:17","slug":"zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhipu&#8217;s founder makes the case for open frontier AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af0670ea46e8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af0670ea46e8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai\/#The_awkward_timing\" >The awkward timing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai\/#The_case_he_is_making\" >The case he is making<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai\/#The_case_against\" >The case against<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zhipus-founder-makes-the-case-for-open-frontier-ai\/#Why_it_matters_now\" >Why it matters now<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p>The founder of China\u2019s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu\u2019s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-12\/zhipu-s-chinese-founder-says-frontier-ai-should-stay-open-to-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His argument inverts the usual security logic. Real safety comes from broad participation, sharing, and oversight, he said, not from technological barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Zhipu has backed that with product. It released\u00a0GLM-5.2 under an open-source licence, free to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a> and commercialise.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_awkward_timing\"><\/span>The awkward timing<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Tang made the comments shortly after Reuters reported that Beijing is considering the opposite. Chinese officials are\u00a0weighing limits on overseas access to the country\u2019s most advanced open models.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The \ud83d\udc9c of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That puts Zhipu\u2019s founder at odds with the direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> in his own capital. Openness has been China\u2019s strategic advantage, and now its government is wondering whether it gave away too much.<\/p>\n<p>The company has commercial reasons to want the door open. Its models have spread globally precisely because they are free, and\u00a0cheap Chinese models are now closing in on the US frontier labs.<\/p>\n<p>That does not make the argument wrong. It does mean the person making it stands to benefit from it, which is true of nearly everyone in this debate.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_case_he_is_making\"><\/span>The case he is making<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The open-source security argument is not fringe. Its logic is that many independent eyes on a system find flaws faster than a small team behind a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders make the same point. When Washington restricted a frontier model,\u00a0100 cybersecurity experts signed an open letter arguing the ban hurt defenders\u00a0more than attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Attackers, they argued, will obtain capable models regardless. The people locked out are the researchers and security teams trying to keep up.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_case_against\"><\/span>The case against<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The closed camp has a straightforward reply. An open-weight model cannot be recalled, patched, or switched off once it is downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing frontier capabilities means publishing them to everyone, including people building bioweapons or industrial-scale cyberattacks. Safeguards trained into a model can be stripped out by anyone with the weights and a modest budget.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides are describing real risks. The disagreement is about which risk is larger, and there is no clean empirical answer yet.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_it_matters_now\"><\/span>Why it matters now<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Zhipu is no longer a curiosity. It has raised billions, listed in Hong Kong, and its\u00a0share sale drew heavy demand\u00a0from investors betting Chinese AI fills the gap left by restricted US models.<\/p>\n<p>So the question is no longer academic. If China does restrict its open models, the world\u2019s main source of free frontier-class AI closes at the same time as America\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Tang is arguing against that outcome from inside the country most likely to cause it. Whether anyone in Beijing is listening is the part he cannot control.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu\u2019s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by\u00a0Bloomberg. His argument inverts the usual security logic. 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