A new AI model from China is generating the kind of buzz not seen since DeepSeek's R1 announced China as a serious threat to American chatbot hegemony over a year ago. Silicon Valley's online echo chamber has been alight with intrigue in recent days over z.AI's new open-source model. Called GLM 5.2, it's a large language model designed for running long coding tasks and agentic workflows. The company says it operates on a 1 million token context window, which would put it in the same league as