Chinese open-source GLM 5.2 wins enterprise budgets as US export controls gate Anthropic and OpenAI

Zhipu’s GLM 5.2 open-source AI model now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on a key agentic benchmark at roughly a fifth of the cost, per CNBC. OpenRouter token traffic for the Chinese model is climbing faster than it did after DeepSeek’s V4 launch in April. GLM 5.2 went live to Zhipu’s...