GLM-5.2, an open-weight AI model released by Z.ai, has set a new benchmark in coding and general agent performance. It outperforms models like Claude Fable 5 and Gemini, and matches or exceeds OpenAI's Opus 4.8 in max thinking mode, establishing itself as the first open model that feels right in coding harnesses as a general agent.
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