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Zhipu (Z.ai)

GLM-5.2

Specs as of

Zhipu’s GLM-5.2, released 13 Jun 2026: MIT open weights, a 1M-token context, and the first open-weight model to reach 51 on the Artificial Analysis index.

Specifications

Lab
Zhipu (Z.ai)
Released
13 Jun 2026 (API and MIT open-source rolled out the following week)
Parameters
Not disclosed at release
Context window
1M tokens
License
Open-weight (MIT)
Pricing
Roughly one-sixth the API cost of GPT-5.5 (VentureBeat). On the Harvey legal benchmark it averaged about $2.40 per task against about $31 for Anthropic’s Fable, a roughly 13x spread (Applied Compute case study, via CAD, 28 Jul 2026). Absolute per-token price not disclosed

The benchmark claim

First open-weight model to land at 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, between GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8; 74.4 on FrontierSWE, within a point of Opus 4.8independent

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Sources

SCMP; VentureBeat; Artificial Analysis; Applied Compute; tmtpost

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