GLM-5.2 is just such a huge leap for Chinese models. it was like the leap that Claude made with Opus 4.6 (or even 4.5) that suddenly catapulted them ahead of everyone and everyone switched to Claude code. There was a fear or theory online that Anthropic had achieved RSI which will just catapult them so far ahead of Chinese models. But if we think of 5.2 as Chinese Opus 4.6, then Zai is essentially 4 months behind with similar cadence level.

