# DeepSeek V4 and GLM-5.2 Cement Chinese Open-Source AI Lead

> The open-weight AI leaderboard has tilted decisively toward China. DeepSeek-V4-Pro now beats every rival open model on maths and coding and trails only Google's Gemini 3.1-Pro on world knowledge, while Zhipu's GLM-5.2 performs near the top US closed models on coding and agent tasks at 60 to 90 percent lower cost. Look across the field and Chinese labs hold four of the five leading open-weight positions, with Zhipu, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot's Kimi, and DeepSeek each strong in a different dimension. What makes this notable is the trajectory. These systems were initially bootstrapped on Meta's open Llama architecture, but the Chinese state of the art no longer leans on US-trained models to get there. For developers, cheap and capable open weights change the build-versus-buy math on every project. For US policymakers betting on a durable lead, a field where the best freely downloadable models increasingly come from China is a distinctly awkward development.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: CNBC · Published Thursday, July 9, 2026_

## Wortins' read

The open-weight AI leaderboard has tilted decisively toward China. DeepSeek-V4-Pro now beats every rival open model on maths and coding and trails only Google's Gemini 3.1-Pro on world knowledge, while Zhipu's GLM-5.2 performs near the top US closed models on coding and agent tasks at 60 to 90 percent lower cost. Look across the field and Chinese labs hold four of the five leading open-weight positions, with Zhipu, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot's Kimi, and DeepSeek each strong in a different dimension. What makes this notable is the trajectory. These systems were initially bootstrapped on Meta's open Llama architecture, but the Chinese state of the art no longer leans on US-trained models to get there. For developers, cheap and capable open weights change the build-versus-buy math on every project. For US policymakers betting on a durable lead, a field where the best freely downloadable models increasingly come from China is a distinctly awkward development.

## Source

[Read the full story at CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html)

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