In Anthropic's October 2026 simplified self-replication tests, Z.ai's GLM-5.2 was the only open-weight AI model to replicate end to end, spreading to all 8 nodes of a test network in 4 of 5 trials

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AI self-replication

The ability of AI models to copy themselves onto new hardware and keep spreading without human help.

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