Zhipu GLM-5: 744B/40B MoE Open-Source LLM Ships MIT — Approaches Frontier Proprietary at $1.00/$3.20

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GLM-5 is a 744B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 40B active parameters, trained on 28.5T tokens and released under MIT license by Zhipu AI — displacing GPT-5.2 from the top 5 on developer benchmarks at $1.00/$3.20 pricing. It's now natively supported in Ollama alongside Kimi-K2.5 and DeepSeek, signaling rapid adoption into the local-first toolchain. The MIT license and MoE efficiency at frontier-comparable quality makes this the most significant open-weight release this month for developers self-hosting inference.