Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 has demonstrated competitive performance with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 in a benchmark involving 103 coding tasks, achieving similar results at one-fifth the cost per output token. However, GLM-5.2 consumes nearly twice as many tokens per task, highlighting a trade-off between cost efficiency and token usage. This pricing disparity could impact the market dynamics and valuations of Western AI companies.