GLM-5.2: Open Weights, Near-Frontier Intelligence — Zixuan Li, Z.ai

Zixuan Li, head of Z.ai, introduces GLM-5.2 and explains the company's history, from the 2021 GLM paper to a new high thinking level and near-frontier benchmark results. He makes the case for open weights through enterprise on-prem deployment, domain fine-tuning and community co-design, and closes by announcing Z Code, an open-sourced coding harness that works with other frontier models.