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GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work arrive as Chinese models challenge US dominance OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, a powerful new agent designed to dominate the office—but they're facing fierce competition from China's GLM-5.2, which experts say matches or beats American frontier models. As accusations of model distillation fly between US and Chinese labs, the AI industry is at an inflection point where everyone's copying everyone else, and the question isn't who's cheating—it's who's winning.