GLM 5.5 will be the next big model
It’s a Kimi K3 class model but faster and hopefully cheaper
The frontier models will be delayed because of regulations
Open source will finally catch up
GLM 5.2 vs Qwen 3.7 Max.
Both mixture-of-experts. Both 1M context. Both built to run agents for hours.
The difference that actually matters: GLM 5.2 is open weight under MIT. Qwen 3.7 Max is API-only.
One you can own and self-host. The other you rent, for good.
Full breakdown, cost math, and how to run either on Yotta:
GLM 5.2 Fast is now available in Droid, hosted by @FireworksAI_HQ.
GLM 5.2 is one of the most popular models in Droid. Now you can build with the same quality at much higher speed.
GLM-5.2 just one-shotted a Minecraft-like game
Via Hermes, it generated a full voxel world with procedural terrain, water, basic building, and survival mechanics in about 20 minutes (~70k tokens).
Not perfect, but it’s a complete playable prototype made by an open model in one go.
Pretty impressive speed for this kind of thing.
glm 5.2 > opus 4.8
for its ability to verify its research, admit when it's wrong, and course-correct
technically, both models are very close
but glm is more professional: it does the research before committing, doesn't pander, and actually corrects itself when it’s wrong
GLM-5.2 is the open-source Claude moment.
The demand we’re seeing at Databricks is astonishing. The world is going to see massive adoption of oss LLMs.
Also, more companies will shift toward post-training their own models on top of oss models and owning the weights.