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.