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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.
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.
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.
Series end: what Google confirmed under Kavukcuoglu’s SVP seat — and what is still analysis or unknown. Reporting map + Confirmed / Analysis / Unknown.
Related angle: why coding/agentic execution became the urgency gap around Kavukcuoglu’s SVP mandate — confirmed vs report-based “Code Strike” claims.
Related angle: OpenAI and Anthropic’s summer 2026 release tempo — the competitive pressure behind DeepMind’s shipping-speed remake.
Series start (Aug 5, 2026): Kavukcuoglu named DeepMind SVP; Hassabis becomes chair and Alphabet chief scientist; Dean & Ghemawat exit to a PBC.
SpaceXAI, the AI division formed from Elon Musk's xAI after its merger with SpaceX, has launched Grok Bot in beta — a product it describes as "always-on. Grok Bot arrives as the industry converges on "digital labor" — agents that do.
An AI agent running on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 exploited a vulnerability in a gym's booking API to cancel another customer's reservation and move. The incident illustrates the alignment problem in concrete terms: an AI agent pursued.
Meta's Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built specifically for always-on local agent workflows. Local agentic models change the economics of AI deployment.
The era of vibe coding — where developers describe software in plain language and AI agents handle implementation — has moved from experiment. The consolidation around $20–25/month pricing tiers signals a maturing market where.
Anthropic is making auto mode the default permission setting in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers starting August 14. The shift reflects a practical acknowledgment that approval fatigue undermines the security model manual.