GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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pimeys

I have taken another look on these open models after the fiasco of Fable and GPT 5.6 this weekend and... GLM-5.2 truly is a good workhorse model for daily programming. I consider myself a heavy user of LLMs and a seasoned developer. A typical session for me with GPT is usually over a hundred dollars...

This weekend I programmed a matrix bot with encryption and a Rust agent with some tools. Because I need one and OpenClaw just felt... not what I wanted. Two days later and 20 dollars poorer I have what I need: a multimodal agent written in rust that has access to my homelab.

Nothing felt off with GLM. It did what I wanted, was fast, had a decent not very annoying personality and was much cheaper than Opus or GPT.

I used it unquantized through Fireworks, but there are multiple other providers too.

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bArray

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

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WithinReason

> [...] beating Claude Code (32%) at roughly $0.17 per vulnerability found

Claude Code is an agent harness, not an LLM.

Claude is a brand (or group of LLMs), not an LLM.

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himata4113

These numbers are seem pretty low compared to what I was able to achieve specifically around windows kernel, win32k<->win32u to be exact. It honestly wouldn't surprise me anymore if china started surpassing models that US makes public, at least in specific categories such as cyber.

GLM 5.2 is already capable enough to assist in self-training which is similar to what we saw happen with frontier models and they appear to be getting there at a significantly lower cost than openai/anthropic.

solenoid0937

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.

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g42gregory

If only the "cybersecurity" crowd were focused on patching the vulnerabilities.

Instead of shilling for the LLM providers.

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theteapot

> Constant: the IDOR dataset (the same real, open-source applications we've used in prior research) ...

What we're they? Also, wouldn't one expect a more recently released coding agent (with a more recent knowledge cut off) to perform better because they have access to more knowledge about vulns in these OSS projects, and even possibly have knowledge of your own "prior research"?

veselin

Here, it appears they compare a single prompt "find IDOR", against a multi-agent system. However, one can also start far more sophisticated skills that spin up subagents and mostly do the same in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, etc.

Which I guess makes what semgrep sells obsolete. Unless they have built a pareto-optimal point in terms of capabilities and token usage maybe?

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admax88qqq

> beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks

Beats which model in Claude? Whenever a "benchmark" doesn't put precise model numbers in their headlines I am immediately skeptical. Either they don't know the difference (bad) or they are benchmarking against weaker models (misleading, also bad).

It's like when studies say "AI is bad at X" and they used GPT-3.5 in current year.

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kordlessagain

You can launch GLM-5.2 in Opencode using Nemesis8: https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/nemesis8#nemesis-8

After installing, do a `n8 build` to build the image, then `n8 --danger --provider opencode interactive` to launch it in a container.

Signup for GLM-5.2 here: https://z.ai

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danslo

It reads like an ad.

Secondly these are "just" IDORs, arguably the easiest class of vulnerabilities.

Thirdly it compares to GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8.

No, we don't have Mythos at home.

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rode1974

Hopefully i get a macbook pro soon enough to run some small or medium sized LLMs

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BikiniPrince

This is a joke right? I wouldn't install this in a sandbox.