The President’s departing AI adviser promises there will not be an FDA for AI — no licensing agency, no sand in the gears — even after Washington withdrew Mythos and stalled GPT-5.6.
The more consequential number is at the other end. GLM 5.2 topped PostTrainBench at five times cheaper than Opus 4.8 and eleven times cheaper than Fable 5, economics that make sovereign models viable for every company and country. Once models can post-train other models, authoring minds becomes an accessible artform.