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GLM 5.2 Beat GPT-5.5. China Did It Again, For 1/10th The Price

Chinese AI startup Z.ai released GLM 5.2 on June 16, 2026, outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at one-tenth the cost, marking a significant milestone in cost-efficient AI development.

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China did it again. Z.ai shipped GLM 5.2 on June 16, 2026 and it beat GPT-5.5, the latest frontier model from OpenAI, by less than four… Continue reading on Towards AI »

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