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Zhipu to reach Mythos-level intelligence by year end

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Model security is about to become China's problem too. On June 18, Zhipu CTO Tang Jie replied to Elon Musk on X, declaring that it "won't take that long" for the company to reach Anthropic's Mythos, the most powerful LLM to date.

Musk's prediction was that China could reach Mythos-level capability ...



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