GLM-5.2: The Frontier Coding Model You Can Actually Download
A deep, builder-focused breakdown of Z.ai's GLM-5.2: a roughly 744B mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context, released open-weights under MIT. What it is, what the benchmarks say (and the asterisk nobody mentions), what it costs on an API versus your own hardware, and when to reach for the open model nobody can ban.