Yeah, I would have expected Zhipu to ship a Fable-adjacent model by the end of the year, but the jump from Kimi 2.7 (which I think is just barely at the level where it is genuinely helpful for coding) to this is absolutely bonkers. And this is clearly not just benchmaxing; this thing actually works.

If you told me I could only use this and never use Fable or Sol again, I'd shrug and not feel like I'd lost much.

with no extra resistance from either the government or the public, while also having the largest technical talent system

Open Weight release is on 27 july.

Its already too late

The sentiment has shifted far too much amongst the investor community and amongst enterprises who are the life-blood of the revenue streams of Anthropic and OAI.

Further releases of Chinese models that demonstrate the gap is not growing substantially is a huge problem. The spending will be called into question.

LLMs are hopelessly confused about which model they are. Ask DeepSeek V4 Flash which model it is, and it's 50/50 between "I am DeepSeek (深度求索)" and "I am part of the GPT-4 series developed by OpenAI." Ask Claude, it'll say Claude. Ask Claude in Chinese, it'll sometimes say DeepSeek.

It's incredibly funny, but I don't know whether it's related to distillation; it's probably quite rare for a distilled trace to mention which model it came from. (I'm not saying distillation doesn't happen, just that it's possibly unrelated.)

For your specific example, the internet is full of "As a large language model developed by OpenAI, I can't..." due to people pasting chatbot output without reading it. Seems reasonable for that to surface as part of the CoT for your question about model capabilities.