LaunchAI ModelsJune 17, 2026
GLM-5.2: ZAI releases open-weight frontier model

GLM-5.2 achieves top spot on Terminal Bench 2.1 and shows competitive performance with frontier models like Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 in blind tests. It is available as open weights on Hugging Face and free to use via Hugging Face Inference Providers.
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GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Taskshuggingface.co
RT @victormustar: Cool: if you have a Hugging Face account you have enough free credits to ask...x.com
China's Zhipu is closing in on top U.S. AI models with Anthropic and OpenAI held backcnbc.com
GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Modelthezvi.substack.com
[AINews] not much happened todaylatent.space
GLM-5.2 and IndexShare for Long-Context Sparse Attentionsebastianraschka.com
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMsimonwillison.net