Chinese cybersecurity company Qihoo 360 Security Technology says it has built two AI tools to rival Anthropic's Mythos. The rhetoric sounds like it was pulled straight from the Cold War.
Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi showed off the tools at a conference in Beijing. "Tu Long Feng" automatically hunts for vulnerabilities, while "Yi Tian Zhen" automates cyber defense. Tu Long Feng has already flagged 3,432 vulnerabilities, Zhou said.
Zhou puts the gap between top Chinese models and the most capable Western ones at 20 to 30 percent. 360 tries to make up for that with an agent-based approach that pairs models with security expertise and automated tools. "China cannot wait until model capabilities have fully caught up before beginning vulnerability discovery. We cannot afford to wait," Zhou said.
Separately, Jie Tang, a Tsinghua University professor who founded Z.ai and recently shipped the well-received GLM-5.2 model, estimated that a Chinese "Mythos" class model would arrive before Q1 2027.
Zhou frames AI vulnerability hunting as a nuclear deterrence problem
