▲ Tenzai
A cybersecurity firm that used a Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence model as its core tool has won first place in a white-hat hacker competition for discovering security vulnerabilities, The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 2nd (local time).
According to the report, Tenzai, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, claimed the top spot in the third-quarter rankings on the leaderboard of HackerOne, a bug bounty platform.
The HackerOne leaderboard is well known as a reputation ranking list for hackers who discover and report security vulnerabilities.
Tenzai stated that it used GLM 5.2, an open-weight model from Chinese AI startup Zai, to discover security vulnerabilities in corporate and public institution systems during this competition.
Open-weight models disclose the values acquired and adjusted by AI during the training process, allowing developers to freely customize and use them according to their purposes.
Unlike leading U.S. AI companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, which use closed-model strategies that strictly control how their models are used, Chinese AI companies have pursued an open-weight strategy.
The NYT evaluated that "this achievement demonstrates the formidable power of Chinese AI technology that is freely available on the internet."
(Photo: Capture from Tenzai website, Yonhap News)
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