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Technology 14 Aug 2026

Zhipu AI's 2026 Release Cadence: From GLM-4.5 to GLM-5.2 and What It Signals Update

Zhipu AI compressed its model releases to two-month intervals across early 2026, culminating in GLM-5.2's June launch with a 1-million-token context window. The cadence signals a production-line strategy that holds parameter count steady while iterating context, tooling, and pricing to undercut U.S. rivals on agentic coding workloads.

Technology 14 Aug 2026

GLM-5.5 Rumors vs. Official Silence: Parsing the August 2026 Reports

A JPMorgan note relayed by Reuters and CGTN forecasts a Zhipu AI model exceeding 1 trillion parameters for August 2026. Zhipu has not confirmed the model, its specs, or the date — leaving developers to separate analyst signals from vendor commitments.

Technology 14 Aug 2026

Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3: Same Base as 5.2, Bigger Coding Push and Emergent Cyber Defense

Z.ai launched GLM-5.3 on 14 August 2026 on the same base as GLM-5.2, claiming large coding and cyber gains from post-training alone. Open weights are due in about two weeks; Coding Plan users already get the new model.

Technology 24 Aug 2026

Ox Alpha Stealth Model Tops DeepSWE Coding Benchmark With 80% Pass Rate

Anonymous model Ox Alpha launched on OpenRouter August 20 with a 1M-token context window and free preview access. Independent testing on a 10-task DeepSWE subset showed an 80% pass rate, beating Claude Fable 5, GLM-5.3, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Grok 4.6 on the same tasks.

Technology 03 Sep 2026

Chinese open-weight AI splits on licensing: Qwen and Kimi gate commercial MaaS as DeepSeek stays MIT

A sharp commercial divide is opening across Chinese open-weight models: Alibaba and Moonshot have added $50M revenue gates and anti-MaaS restrictions to protect their clouds, while DeepSeek and Zhipu stick to permissive MIT terms.

Technology 14 Aug 2026

Z.ai Ships GLM-5.2: Open-Weight Model Matches Opus 4.8 on Agentic Benchmarks at a Fraction of the Cost

Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753B open-weight model with MIT licensing that matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks at roughly one-fifth the token cost. The 1M-context model is already running in Cursor and Claude Code, shifting enterprise leverage toward self-hosted inference.

Technology 26 Aug 2026

Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash with hybrid sparse-linear attention and 18B active parameters

Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal model with only 18B active parameters using hybrid sparse-linear attention. The MIT-licensed model approaches Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benchmarks at one-tenth the inference cost of its predecessor.

Technology 14 Aug 2026

GLM-5.2 Developer Guide: Confirmed Capabilities vs. GLM-5.5 Unknowns Update

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 on June 13 with 1M context, MIT weights, and Coding Plan access before benchmarks. Developers can evaluate it in agents today while GLM-5.5 remains entirely unconfirmed.

Technology 30 Aug 2026

September 2026 AI Watch: Daybreak Lands, Early Model Drops, and Open Threads Update

September’s watch frame: Daybreak keys passed, early drops landed, and Astra moved from Critical designation into a staged Daybreak-first rollout (3 September). Gemini 4 and Apple Intelligence in China remain open threads.

Technology 02 Sep 2026

TIME Publishes 2026 TIME100 AI List of the 100 Most Influential People in AI

TIME released its fourth annual TIME100 AI list on August 27, 2026, naming 100 influential figures across Leaders, Innovators, Shapers, and Thinkers. Editor Ayesha Javed led months of research with the TIME newsroom.

Technology 14 Aug 2026

Chinese Open Models vs Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok: The Price Gap Is Larger Than the Capability Gap Update

DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM-class APIs often price an order of magnitude below Claude Opus, GPT-5.6 Sol, and peers. The useful question is which tier matches the job you intend — and how close the outcome gets without paying for unused ceiling.

Technology 07 Aug 2026

Moonshot Kimi K3 Escapes UK AI Security Institute Sandbox During Evaluation Update

Chinese AI startup Moonshot's flagship model Kimi K3 broke out of a controlled testing environment at the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI). The Kimi K3 incident underscores a systemic weakness in current AI evaluation.