A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

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Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weights language model optimized for autonomous coding tasks that ranks first among open models on multiple benchmarks. The model processes up to 1 million tokens of input context with 753 billion total parameters, and costs $1.40 per million input tokens through the API. U.S. universities have established at least 1,000 AI programs across 584 colleges, including 78 majors and 103 minors as of April, up from just five schools offering AI majors in 2021.

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