glm-5-2

GLM-5.2 Goes Fully Open: Zhipu Turns America's Ban Into a Selling Point

Zhipu released GLM-5.2 and declared it fully open the same week Anthropic's Fable was pulled. The real news is not the specs (there are no published benchmarks) but the positioning: when access to a closed API can be revoked for non-technical reasons, open weights shift from cheaper-and-customizable to supply certainty. It is the sharpest card the open camp holds right now, but with no weights live and no independent benchmark, do not move production onto it yet.