{"id":953355,"date":"2025-08-07T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953355"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:25:25","slug":"chinas-z-ai-and-americas-self-defeating-ai-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/07\/chinas-z-ai-and-americas-self-defeating-ai-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Z.ai and America\u2019s Self-Defeating AI Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s DeepSeek shocked the global AI community in January by building a frontier model at a fraction of Western costs. Now it has been outdone by a Chinese company subject to U.S. sanctions. It has become painfully obvious that Washington\u2019s strategy of restricting chip exports isn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p>Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, last week launched GLM-4.5, a production-level open-source model priced at 13% of DeepSeek\u2019s cost. It matches or exceeds Western standards in coding, reasoning and tool use. Z.ai runs on only eight Nvidia H20 chips, which Nvidia recently gained reapproval to sell in China. That\u2019s better performance than DeepSeek with about half the hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s DeepSeek shocked the global AI community in January by building a frontier model at a fraction of Western costs. Now it has been outdone by a Chinese company subject to U.S. sanctions. It has become painfully obvious that Washington\u2019s strategy of restricting chip exports isn\u2019t working. Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, last week launched GLM-4.5, a production-level open-source model priced at 13% of DeepSeek\u2019s cost. It matches or exceeds Western standards in coding, reasoning and tool use. Z.ai runs on only eight Nvidia H20 chips, which Nvidia recently gained reapproval to sell in China. That\u2019s better performance than DeepSeek with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}