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Public story · 2026-03-04 · source-backed
Z.ai's GLM-5 (744B/40B MoE, MIT license, 205K context) is free on NVIDIA NIM at 40 req/min with no credit card. Benchmarks: 77.8% SWE-bench Verified (highest open-source), 56.2 Terminal-Bench 2.0 (approaching Opus 4.5's 59.3). Trained entirely on 100,000 Huawei Ascend chips. You can point Claude Code at this model via claude-launcher's translation proxy. Strongest free coding model available today. (NVIDIA NIM)
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This is the other half of the Fable 5 story, so read them together. While the best coding model in the world is uncallable, an open-weight one quietly posted frontier-adjacent numbers. Per Tom's Hardware, independent benchmarks for the MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (744B params, 40B ac...
Use claude-launcher v0.4 to route Claude Code through NVIDIA NIM, running GLM-5 (744B MoE, 40B active, MIT license) at zero cost with 40 req/min free tier. GLM-5 scores 92.7% on AIME 2026 and 77.8% on SWE-bench Verified. paddo.dev
The 397B MoE scores 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Terminus-2) against Claude Opus 4.8's 85.0, 86.0 on SWE-bench Verified, and 92.8 on GPQA Diamond. Hugging Face But it trails badly on the harder agentic rows: 13.5 versus 21.1 on Frontier-Bench v0.1, 59.5 versus 69.7 on NL2Repo....
Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 today and the numbers are hard to ignore. One trillion parameters total, 32 billion active per token across 384 experts, 256K context window, and native multimodal input. It scores 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro versus GPT-5.4's 57.7 and Claude Opus 4.6's...
DeepSeek released V4 on April 24 and the numbers demand attention. V4-Pro is 1.6 trillion parameters total with 49 billion active, MIT-licensed, native 1M-token context. It scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified, putting it within 0.2 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On Terminal-Bench 2...
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