GLM-5: Zhipu AI's 744B Open-Source Beast – The New King of Agentic Coding? (Feb 2026 Breakdown)

Feb 13 · 4 min read · Just two days ago (Feb 11, 2026), Zhipu AI (aka Z.ai) dropped GLM-5 - a massive 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model under full MIT license. Trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips (no NVIDIA in sight), it's already topping open-weight leade...