what an unexpectedly insane day for chinese AI
deepseek raises at $50B val
then microsoft (openai’s biggest investor) announces it’s using deepseeks model for its flagship copilot ai
then Zhipu drops glm-5.2 which matches opus 4.8 and got 5.5 at top coding benchmarks
all open weight models btw. if you’re an american enterprise spending $10-100M+ a year on claude code/codex you have to at least be thinking about using these models
imagine wrapping these models in a cursor harness, performance would be very competitive.
very significant in light of recent government bans on fable too
Z.ai (@Zai_org)
Introducing GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weights
- Significant improvements in coding and agentic tasks
- Strong long-horizon capabilities with a 1M context window
- Two levels of reasoning effort: GLM-5.2 (max) pushes the limits, while GLM-5.2 (high) strikes a strong balance between performance and token efficiency
- MIT-licensed open weights
- Same API pricing as GLM-5.1
Tech Blog: z.ai/blog/glm-5.2
Weights: huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5…
API: docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.2
Coding Plan: z.ai/subscribe
Chat: chat.z.ai
— https://nitter.net/Zai_org/status/2066938937344495629#m