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GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and nobody panicked
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- Jun 26, 2026
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Hey, it’s Alex. Next month is my 40th b-day, and honestly, my wish for that month is to have a week like this week. A very chill, almost nothing announced week. This week started strong, with Sakana announcing FUGU (AI router) that can beat Fable (which we didn’t get back yet), and then... quiet. The most important thing in AI this week from a release standpoint is that GLM 5.2 from Z.AI is having it’s DeepSeek moment! Tons of new love for this model since last week! (+ we have the fastest GLM 5.2 deployment in the world with CW inference !) The rest we can quickly count on one hand, Anthropic added Claude to Slack (which made folks hate Andrej Karpathy), OpenAI announced their own inference chip, GPT 5.6 will be delayed and the US Gov will decide who gets it (yes really) and Sean Grove joined us to talk about Linzumi and his vision for running 10,000 agent hours per person per day. Oh and next week, is a special AI Engineer live stream from World’s Fair! Don’t miss it Let’s get into it! Subscribe to never miss a beat! GLM 5.2 is having its DeepSeek moment ( HF , CW Inference ) We covered GLM 5.2 last week, but this week was when the rest verdict came in! We’ve never seen a better MIT licenced AI model! GLM 5.2 is scoring top scores on agentic benchmarks (Arena.ai), Design benchmarks, Legal tasks and full on software engineering tasks. The jump in generations from prevoius GLM is also massive and notable, as the lab is working on creating the next version of GLM (per the CEO’s reply to Elon on X). Peter from Arena pulled up the Agent Arena numbers and they align with the vibe. GLM 5.2 sits above 5.1 but below Opus and Fable, which feels about right. Where it gets wild is Web Dev Arena: second place, right after Fable. Peter’s take was that GLM has really good defaults.…