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glm 5.2 beats opus 4.8 as chinese labs sweep hugging face

Comic-style man holding a balance scale with glowing crystals labeled GLM, Minimax, and Moonshot against a purple backdrop models

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

Trending models on Hugging Face table showing 8 models from labs including zai-org, minimaxai, moonshotai, google, and nvidia with downloads and likes
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