An Open Source AI Model Just Beat GPT-5.5 — And It Costs a Sixth of the Price
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something shifted in AI last week, and most people missed it. On June 17, a Chinese company called Z.ai released an open-source model called GLM-5.2 — and it beat GPT-5.5 on multiple coding benchmarks. Not “almost matched.” Not “close enough.” Actually beat it. At roughly one-sixth the cost. ...