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China's Z.ai Releases a Giant Open-Source Coding Model That Undercuts GPT-5.5 on Price
VentureBeat·Thursday, 18 June 2026
Chinese AI startup Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights AI model built for complex, long-running coding tasks. The company claims it beats GPT-5.5 on multiple coding benchmarks at one-sixth the cost. The model is immediately available on Hugging Face and the Z.ai API.
Why It Matters
Cheaper, powerful open-source AI models mean developers and companies worldwide — including in India — can build sophisticated AI tools without paying premium prices to US giants.
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