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Chinese AI model GLM-5.2 closes gap with US frontier labs

Beijing startup Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a free, open-weight AI model that benchmarks close to the best offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI at a fraction of their cost. Its arrival coincides with US government restrictions on top American models, handing Chinese developers an unexpected opening.