GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running It (opens in new tab)

Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 is the new #1 open-weight model — 753B params, MIT license, a 1M-token context and a real architecture trick (IndexShare). But the weights are 1.51TB. What owners and the benchmarks actually say, and the honest hardware reality of running it at home.