Z.ai's GLM-5.2 is the open-weight model US export controls cannot touch
Z.ai released GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model that benchmarks above GPT-5.5 on coding and fits on a 256GB Mac Studio. Released one day after US export controls forced Anthropic offline globally, it shows how open weights make chip restrictions largely irrelevant.