China’s GLM 5.2 KILLED Claude? artwork

China’s GLM 5.2 KILLED Claude?

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

June 20, 2026

GLM 5.2: China’s Open-Source Model That Rivals Claude (Build Games, Apps & Full Agent OS)The script claims China’s open-weight GLM 5.2 model rivals Claude in the creator’s tests and enables building websites, apps, tools, and full 3D games with minimal technical skill.
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
So China just released one of the most powerful models I've ever seen. It's right up there with Claude on my own tests. And what you can build with it is absolutely wild. I'm gonna show you exactly how you can use it, how I'm building with it, and how to combine it with Claude code to basically automate and build anything. And it's outrageous what you can do. Let me show you some examples. So this is like a real full-world game. I don't even understand the limits of this yet. We fully automated it using Glm 5.2. We were just like, right, build me a game. Bear in mind, I'm non-technical. I'm not a coder, I'm not a developer, but we can build whatever we want, including full 3D real-world games, as you can see, using this powerful system. Here's another example. So this is like a crazy game that you can build out with this stuff. You can build websites, apps, games, tools. We've even linked it to our memory galaxy inside the Agent OS. So this is one of the other cool things that we've done with it. Over here, you can see that this is all linked to my memories and we have a galaxy of stars. They're all my memories and everything that's going on in my life. Here's an example. So we can zoom in, zoom out of this galaxy. My AI agents can plug into it. Glm 5.2 can organize it and build it to get more context. We can automate videos, we can automate SEO, we can automate music, etc. Using this powerful system. We can even go from idea to implementation in like two single clicks using this powerful system. So how are we doing this? What happens here? What's going on, etc. So basically what we're doing here is we're using Glm 5.2. Now, something that's interesting to know here is that the same day Claude got banned pretty much, China gave them away. So Claude Fable 5 got banned and then Glm 5.2 dropped. And it's absolutely wild. Here's another example. So this is a full video made with Glm 5.2.
This is fully automated. And bear in mind, the video itself, we just type in one single prompt, it creates a b-roll, it creates the full video, as you can see, it automates, it all plugs it all together, puts my voice over on. We can even add like an AI avatar to this too. And it's unbelievable what we can do here. Now, here's the announcement from Glm 5.2. So they said it's now available to all people on the coding plans, which means that you can actually plug it into something like Hermes, Agent and then get teams of agents to build avatar videos like you can see. So if you've never used Glm 5.2 before and you're thinking, it's probably not that good, it's probably trash. Well, it created this whole video in one single prompt, which is better than most people's videos out there. And it did it like, you know, just on autopilot, it's our age. Here's some other stuff that is built, right? It actually built out a full operating system. So if you open this up, these are all different apps, including a music app that we've put inside a completely different operating system, right? You can see, for example, it's created Paint, it's created this notes pad where we can close it, then open it up and it saves everything. We've even got like the file and edit and view and everything like that. So full operating system here and then a calculator as well, right? So apps within apps, that's what we are doing. It's getting very meta like so. And we can also give this to Hermes, Agent as well. So we can log into Hermes, Agent using our coding plan, which you can't do with Claude. That's a huge advantage to using this new model from China. And bear in mind, this is a tiny little lab in Beijing that's actually created this. So it is Moonshot, Kimi Moonshot, that created, sorry, ZAI created this from Glm 5.2. It's pretty powerful stuff. Here's some other things that we've built.
You might be wondering, like, how does it perform? How does it work, et cetera? So these are the announcements from Glm 5.2, Frontier Intelligence Openweight, right? Open source. So what's crazy about that is that this is fully open source, MIT license, which means people can use it commercially.
And it's completely open. Now compare that to like the US government banning Fable 5 Totally different attitude, right? Totally different approach to it, which is kind of scary in itself. You'll see it came number one on design arena. So it's very good at UI. It came tenth on the agent arena board. So just below Claude. And it's pretty performing very well on benchmarks. It's right up there with Claude Opus 4.8. Now here's one of the craziest things that you can actually get Claude to build directly with Glm 5.2. So you can see, for example, we've had a full conversation. We've Claude desktop and we got it to actually operate Glm 5.2 and then build it into our agent operating system. So if we go inside this section, we can chat with it directly here. We can also go inside Hermes and speak to it directly there.

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