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A Chinese lab answers the shutdown with radical openness

development2026-06-14

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Within hours of the shutdown, China's Z.ai fully open-sourced GLM-5.2, a million-token coder released under the argument that frontier intelligence belongs to everyone.

Reporting date: 2026-06-14 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 14, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to June 14, 2026

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Z.ai

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The administration lays out its reasoning for pulling a model

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A Chinese lab answers the shutdown with radical openness
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Reporting date: 2026-06-14
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-14-radical-openness-answers-within-hours
Claim: Within hours of the shutdown, China's Z.ai fully open-sourced GLM-5.2, a million-token coder released under the argument that frontier intelligence belongs to everyone.
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- Welcome to June 14, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-14-2026
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