Story · Zixuan Li (Z.ai)
GLM-5.2: Open Weights, Near-Frontier Intelligence (Zixuan Li (Z.ai))
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Li says the open-weight GLM-5.2 lands between Claude Opus 4.7 and 4.8 on the hardest long-horizon coding and agentic benchmarks, and that its non-thinking mode beats GLM-5.1 with thinking turned on. Z.ai also introduced Z Code, its own coding harness.
In plain words
- Z.ai introduced artificial intelligence software that it says performs close to leading competitors on tests of lengthy programming tasks.
- Customers can download its learned settings, the information that shapes how it responds, to run it themselves.
- Z Code, its new programming tool, works with this software and other leading alternatives.
- Businesses and governments can train the software further to make it better suited to work such as law or finance.
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- Agent-written pull requests match human ones on revert rates, and fail differently
Sep 28, 2026 · in the sections
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