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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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Yes, and the article author is fully aware of that. Thank you for pointing out this small mistake though.

It looks like the author is specifically avoiding model's name, because results are really weird. Opus 4.8/4.7 scored 28% Opus 4.6 score 37% So the author thought as let's not get into that just write Claude.

Hello! Author here (Katie) Ty for your comments, 4.6 and 4.7 both scored 28% on our benchmark, I just wanted to have 10 things in the list because I wanted a round number.

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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The rumour is that it's trained on Opus, but who knows

Oh of course all deepseek and glm are. Multiple people have seen GLM self report that it is claude, which makes it super obvious. I think the surprising thing is I expect flash to be a pure distillation and strictly worse quality but clearly it’s more nuanced than that.

Don't ask western llms in Chinese what model they are...

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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I find it astounding that ppl still comment “it’s still behind” or “it’s not the best model”. Everything is about the harness. Even the big AI labs are focusing on managing agents - sandboxes, memory, context, skills, loops. With the right harness GLM 5.2 can do no wrong.

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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GLM 5.2 is a great model, but if you only want to use the best model available, it isn't there yet. Every lab releases models that memorize benchmark answers, both intentionally and unintentionally. But we consistently find that models from Chinese labs have a wider gap between public benchmarks and our evaluations, which we designed to be less vulnerable to benchmaxxing. In multi-agent coding environments, GLM 5.2 i…

> but if you only want to use the best model available, it isn't there yet I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly why so may people seem to want the best model available when it has recently become clear that most halfway decent models can write damn good code for a fraction of the price. And the frontier models get nerfed constantly so you with open weight you can get something slightly less performant but way mo…

> most halfway decent models can write damn good code for a fraction of the price

The problem isn't what they do in a blank state. It is how they get there and the edge cases. Some models also take longer (uses more steps) i.e. end up costing more despite being "cheaper".

I've seen models:

- Back out plans non-stop. Tried the obvious path. Invents X/Y/Z excuse (without verifying) that it can't be done. Notes that down and moves on. It could be as simple as site A being down and to download from site B but that's it.

- Hacks the test to make it work. Code is wrong? Nah, let's update the test.

- Keep saying useless things like YAGNI and infinite excuses like too risky to never do the work.

- Claims they are done but there's 100 edge cases not covered. When you try to use it it fails in ways you as a human assume it should work. You can write a spec to cover it all but then what's the point?

- Be trigger happy and never investigate. Tries to do it. 5 minutes. Oh it failed. Back out. Repeat. Better models definitely spend more time analyzing and actually "think". I've had models spend hours trying to do a change due to this method when an actual investigation (code walkthrough) might have solved it.

- Know and use the right tools. A lot of lesser models have infinite fear e.g. oh docker might not be available (it is) or this and that (even if you nudge it in any way) and spend a lot of extra time "working around" it.

The list goes on. Better models definitely help.

Only thing to agree on is no you don't need Fable but saying Sonnet can do the job instead of Opus is a different story. It's so obvious when Sonnet touches the code that I can't give it more than 5 minutes. It lies. Doesn't check. Forgets things and then messes up.

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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Twice in the text quotes Claude Code's F1 score as 32%, but the table shows the score is 37%. It's very likely that the actual score is 32% (because it is referenced 2 times, and a third time indirectly as the difference 'seven'). Oddly, this is a strong indication of the text being hand-written rather than LLM-assisted; it's very likely that a human made a mistake in creating the table. > ... beating Claude Code (32…

Hello author here, or one of them anyway. I can confirm that it was hand written, 32% was combined all the Claude models (4.6, 4.7, 4.8) mushed into one score, 37% was Opus 4.6 specifically (which did the best)

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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Apparently GLM 5.2 is 753B parameters [1], what kind of hardware are people using to run this locally? [1] https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.2

8 X RTX6000. It will run you around 80-100k to get started with a model at this size with decent tps.. Don't worry though, open source evangelists will tell you that these will be running on your phone in the next 3 years. For $100k you could run this model 24/7 through open router with 10 concurrent sessions at 50tps for a decade and have money left over for a vacation. There's no point in investing this type of mon…

Given GLM is open weight - all you need is one company to take the taalas approach ( model on hardware ), and you're sorted right?

https://taalas.com/products/

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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Title is misleading (and is editorialized from the actual article title). GLM 5.2 did better than Claude in one specific cybersecurity-related benchmark (finding vulnerabilities of one certain type). I don't think you can draw any general conclusions about the relative utility of the two models.

1000% this, this was us internally testing if our harness worked, the motivation was never to test them in-depth 1v1. We were just really shocked at the results, there’s a lot more work to do here.

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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We use a rotating pool of ~100 games for the coding parts of the benchmark, and are scored objectively based on ratings similar to Elo. Models write code submissions to interact with the environment, then are evaluated in large batches against other submissions. We test 11 popular/interesting languages (you can see the Languages chart to filter), but not Elixir -- although other evaluations have found that many LLMs…

An expressive and well designed language (elixir) is objectively better than a less well designed language like python. Python probably needs more LoC than elixir for the same task. Python is also untyped by default.

Elixir is not just expressive, it's highly conventional. I've found best practice code usually converges on the same idiomatic patterns, and well written codebases look very similar to each other in style

Re: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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GLM export controls incoming? I predict Commerce will force OpenRouter, HuggingFace to take some open models down within the next few months. Not that it would make any sense.

If that happens it'll be an absolute disaster. Imagine a scenario where Anthropic and OpenAI prohibit most US companies from using their latest models because of safety.. And meanwhile attackers use equivalent open source models to attack US companies. Any prohibition on open source models will do nothing to fix the problem.. since attackers will never feel bound to the law. All advanced models must be available for…

They did the same by banning strong encryption. Never underestimate the stupidity of politicians
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