Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5
Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
GLM-5.2 - How to Run Locally | Unsloth Documentation
Run the new GLM-5.2 model by Z.ai on local hardware!
The frontier is open-source today
GLM-5.2 - open weights - single-shot our AI-resistant backend take-home to a higher level than Opus 4.8, and built offmute-v2: state-of-the-art timestamp-accurate diarization. A head-to-head with no detail glossed over.
5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (Stratechery Article 7-20-2026)
Physics of LM: Part 4.2, Canon Layers at Scale where Synthetic Pretraining Resonates in Reality
pi-ds4 · Audrey Tang
Run a frontier model on your own machine with stable, contestable decision traces. Full install, steering, reproducibility, and tuning guide.
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
unsloth/GLM-5.2-GGUF · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled frontier models they claim rival OpenAI and Anthropic.
The State of Open Models
