CEO of Chinese Anthropic rival tells Elon Musk that China will have a Fable 5-class AI model before next year — it ‘won’t take that long’ says Jie Tang in response to Musk's prediction of a Q1 target

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Elon Musk estimated that Chinese AI firms would have an LLM with Mythos level capability by the first quarter of 2027. However, the CEO of Beijing-based Z.ai responded to the comment, saying that their company will achieve this soon, but did not give a concrete timeline.
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