The new AI benchmark is intelligence per dollar – Chinese open-source model Z.AI GLM 5.2 is closing the intelligence gap

Enterprise interest is shifting from pure model performance on leaderboards towards the efficiency of 'intelligence per dollar'. Chinese open-source models like Z.AI’s GLM 5.2 are demonstrating frontier-level capabilities, particularly in agentic work, at a small fraction of the cost of closed American models. This economic shift allows...

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