GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents
About this episode
The episode discusses the release of the GLM-5.2 model by Z.ai and its implications in the AI landscape.
Housekeeping: Following my “ State of the blog ” post last week, noting a slight increase in paid features, it’s a good time to remind folks that I offer group subscriptions with larger discounts proportional to the number of seats. I also released a new paper today on open RL recipes for terminal agents, read more here . A bit over a week ago, when the AI world was still reeling from the shocking export restriction, and effective banning , of Claude Fable 5 , Z.ai released their latest model, GLM-5.2. This model was rolled out unusually on a Saturday, June 13th, to GLM Coding Plan members. This is an unusual release practice, normally when an AI model is released on a weekend it’s for a weird reason (most famously, Llama 4 ). In this case, it seemed like Z.ai was excited to capitalize on the zeitgeist of “Anthropic being anti open-science” with their silent safeguards on AI researchers. For the past year or two, the Chinese open-weight labs have taken every opportunity they have for easy marketing wins like this. GLM-5.2, in a common naming convention across the industry, looked potentially like an incremental update following the popular GLM-5.1 model. At this point, Moonshot…
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