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Genuinely impressed, almost shocked, at how good GLM-5.2

Guillermo Rauch expresses genuine amazement at the quality of GLM-5.2, stating he was almost shocked by how good it is.

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This is a fictional tweet. There is no real AI model called "GLM-5.2" — the post appears to be a parody or a hypothetical. The tweet references real-world dynamics: the AI community closely watches each new model release (e.g., from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic). The "GLM" name echoes actual Chinese models like GLM-130B (Zhipu AI), and the version number "5.2" mimics the format of model iterations. The post satirizes the pattern of industry insiders expressing surprise at a competitor's unexpected quality. The best-known comparable real event was the shock at DeepSeek-V3's performance in late 2024–early 2025.

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