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

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7 in a Snowflake benchmark with 103 coding tasks at one-fifth the cost per output token. But the Chinese model burns through nearly twice as many tokens per task. Still, that pricing gap is putting real pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI, and could rattle the valuations of Western AI labs. The article Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder.

Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost
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Published June 24, 2026 · Category: AI Briefing

Overview

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7 in a Snowflake benchmark with 103 coding tasks at one-fifth the cost per output token. But the Chinese model burns through nearly twice as many tokens per task. Still, that pricing gap is putting real pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI, and could rattle the valuations of Western AI labs.

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The article Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder.

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Originally published at the-decoder.com.

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