China’s Plan to Save Jobs From A.I.

A Chinese lab recently unveiled another astonishingly powerful and astonishingly cheap artificial intelligence model. GLM-5.2, produced by Z.ai, is almost as good as Anthropic’s latest model but runs at less than a tenth of its price. The A.I. race between the U.S. and China has been front of mind at the highest levels of government in both countries. But creating the most potent model is not the only — and maybe not even the best — way to measure A.I. success. Today I write about an area that’s had less…