GLM-5.2 Made It Official: 9 of the Top 10 Open-Source LLMs Are Chinese (opens in new tab)

9 of the world's top 10 open-source LLMs are now Chinese. After GLM-5.2 landed this week, the only non-Chinese model still in the top 10 is Llama. If you've been putting off integrating these models because the access path looks weird from the US or EU, this is the post I wish I'd had eighteen months ago. The 9-of-10 moment I keep two browser tabs open all day: aider.chat/docs/leaderboards and the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. As of this week: Kimi K2.6 sits at the top of Aider Polyglot a...