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Why Did the Company America Sanctioned Only Get Stronger? — The Sanctions Paradox GLM-5 Just Proved
America's Entity List tried to strangle Chinese AI firm Zhipu, but two years later the company surged 80% on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and dropped a frontier open-source model. GLM-5, trained exclusively on Huawei chips with 744 billion parameters, slashed Silicon Valley's price tag by six-fold and slapped an MIT license on top. Did sanctions actually breed a monster?