Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long-horizon" autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face, the Z.ai API, and more than 20 third-party coding environments, the model boasts a highly stable 1-million-token context window alongside enterprise subscription tiers starting at just $12.60 per month. In excellent news for cost and security-conscious businesses, z.ai has released GLM-5.2's core weights under an unrestricted MIT open-source license, allowing enterprises to download the model freely from Hugging Face, customize or fine-tune it to their liking, and run it potentially locally or via virtual