GLM-5.2 just topped the HN front page: Chinese open-weights models sit at the same table as frontier labs
Yesterday the front page of Hacker News led with GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis: 858 points, 417 comments. The submitter, himata4119, was new. The source wasn’t: it is the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1, the third-party benchmark the rest of the AI world uses to seat frontier models. Six months ago, a story like this would have collected a few “propaganda” replies on HN. This time it didn’t. I read the top 30 comments. The technical folks were comparing Elo scores, $/M token, context windows, and rate limits. No one was discussing who made it. ...