China reaches Mythos-tier Cyber AI + White House AI Accord + Trump/Xi Debrief
With producer Jack Conlin
About this episode
Gregory Allen and Jack Conlin recap the modest outcomes of the U.S.–China AI Summit and Trump’s UN General Assembly speech. Then, the White House has secured a voluntary AI safety accord from leading U.S. tech companies committing to a “morally binding” framework called the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. Greg also breaks down Anthropic and the U.S.’ CAISI reports that Z.ai’s openly downloadable GLM 5.3 model has reached the Mythos-tier of cyber power and lags the US frontier by only four months in cyber capabilities. Plus, why did OpenAI’s decide to withhold GPT-6.1 Astra?
In this episode
- 00:00US–China summit recap and reactions
- 14:22White House AI luncheon and voluntary safety framework
- 23:21Unpacking the new AI safety framework
- 32:13GLM5.3 has Mythos-level capabilities, and the new cyber AI landscape
- 47:39How did GLM5.3 attain near-frontier level capabilities?
- 56:46OpenAI withholds release of GPT6.1-Astra