GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM
17th June 2026
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB monster—with 40 active parameters (Mixture of Experts). GLM-5.2 is a text input only model—Z.ai have a separate vision family most recently represented by GLM-5V-Turbo, but that one isn’t open weights. GLM-5.2 has a 1 millio...
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