China
Security
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Jul 19, 2026
Expensive, proprietary US models were no help to Hugging Face’s defenders, and free Chinese ones were; that’s a warning sign.
In mid-June, Z.ai's new model made waves in testing. Now operators are reporting high usage while coders wonder why they are paying for Opus.
China's open source community has grown massively in the last decade, prompting celebration and concern from all sides of the ecosystem.