Overview

GLM-5.2 is zhipu-ai’s flagship large language model — MIT-licensed open weights on Hugging Face, optimized for agentic coding and long-horizon software engineering.

Key Specs

  • 1M-token context window
  • SWE-bench Pro: 62.1% (top among open-weight models; below Opus 4.8 69.2%)
  • Anthropic-compatible API endpoint — drop-in backend for Claude Code harness
  • Trained on domestic Chinese silicon (Huawei Ascend reported; secondary sources)

Release Timeline

  • 2026-06-16: Released to GLM Coding Plan subscribers, then open-sourced
  • 2026-07-02: zcode IDE launched as official development environment

Sources