Addy Crezee
chinese labs dominate open weights
minimax, moonshot, and glm all shipped in june and immediately took the top 3 trending spots on hugging face – and glm 5.2 isn't just trending, it lands #4 on the artificial analysis intelligence index, right behind the top closed models, and beats opus 4.8 on design arena
so the quality gap is basically closed. the only thing keeping these off most machines is size: glm 5.2 is a 1.51tb repo
which is exactly why google's diffusiongemma is the outlier at 460k downloads while everyone else sits under 200k – at 26b params it actually runs on consumer hardware. efficiency, not scale, is what decides who reaches the market now
