OpenAI is Flirting with Danger by Naming China's Blacklisted Zhipu AI as a Threat

China's AI ecosystem is going strong. So much so that it is starting to compete internally, and the much-talked-about DeepSeek is no longer at the top. Zhipu AI is not a name that typically comes up in casual conversations about AI supremacy. It doesn't have the fanfare of DeepSeek or the benchmark-breaking headlines of Alibaba's latest models. But this week, OpenAI made it clear that Zhipu is a threat worth watching. In a blog post that reads more like a geopolitical intelligence memo than a developer update, OpenAI called out the Beijing-backed startup as a significant player in China's AI…