Free Chinese AI Can Hack Companies While Frontier Developers Face Diminishing Returns

Chinese AI that anyone can download for free has become good enough to break into corporate networks, said Ariel Zeitlin, co-founder and chief technology officer of Tenzai, an Israeli startup that sells hacking software for testing corporate defenses, known as continuous penetration testing. At the same time, the most advanced AI that had an early lead in cybersecurity capabilities is getting harder and costlier to improve, said Micah Hill-Smith, CEO of AI benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis. That means Chinese models won’t be far behind and makes it unlikely that any one developer pulls far ahead of its rivals.