China’s AI model approaches Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in cyber-defense tests

Two of China’s most prominent AI companies just made a coordinated statement to the world: the gap between Chinese and American cyber-AI is shrinking, and fast. At the ISC.AI 2026 conference in Beijing on June 24, Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled an automated vulnerability-hunting suite while Zhipu AI showed off benchmark results putting its latest model within striking distance of Anthropic’s flagship. Anthropic launched Claude Mythos 5 on June 9, barely two weeks before Beijing’s conference. What Qihoo 360 actually built Zhou’s unveiling centered on a suite called “Yitian Tulong,” which contains two main components. Tulongfeng handles automated bug hunting, essentially an AI system that scans codebases for exploitable weaknesses. Yitianzhen covers the defensive side: incident response, threat detection, and remediation. Qihoo 360 claims Tulongfeng has already flagged 3,432 software vulnerabilities. Of those, 105 have been confirmed by Chinese government sources. Zhou himself was refreshingly candid about where Chinese models stand relative to their American counterparts. He estimated that Chinese systems lag US models by roughly 20-30% in raw capabilities. His proposed work...