Open Source

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 Just Topped the Open Weights Leaderboard — And It Beat Llama 3.1 70B Doing It

The Chinese lab's new 70B model scores 89.4% on MMLU-Pro, setting a new open source record.

Deep Dive

Key Points
  • GLM-5.2 achieves 89.4% on MMLU-Pro, 82.3% on HumanEval, and 93.1% on GSM8K.
  • Uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 70B total parameters but only 42B active.
  • Released under Apache 2.0 license with full training details for reproducibility.

Why It Matters

Enterprises gain a performant, commercially viable open model that rivals top proprietary systems.

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