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Zhipu Unveils GLM-5.2 LLM; Trump Bars Anthropic Access
6/18/2026
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Story summary
- Zhipu launched GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter MIT-licensed LLM, on June 15-16 2026 via Hugging Face, the Z.ai API and platforms.
- Benchmarks show GLM-5.2 matches or exceeds proprietary models on coding and long-horizon tasks, costing $4.40 per million tokens.
- President Donald Trump ordered Anthropic to halt access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5, prompting Zhipu to stress open availability.
- JPMorgan kept an overweight rating on Zhipu, raised its target to HK$1,400 and noted a 33 % share rise.
