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2026-07-21
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artificial-intelligence
Chinaβs Low-Priced Z.ai Model Is Exposing Costly Coder Habits
Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weights model released on June 16 by the Beijing-based lab, costs $4.40 per million output tokens via API, less than a fifth the price of Anthropic's Opus β¦